LOVE LETTERS

Gerda Weissmann was one of 120 Jews who survived a Nazi death march near the Germany-Czechoslovakia border. Kurt Klein was an American G.I. who helped liberate her labor camp in 1945. After Weissmann recuperated, she and Klein began a correspondence–and later married. Since then, Gerda and Kurt have told their stories in books and documentaries. They’ll discuss their new “The Hours After: Letters of Love and Longing in War’s Aftermath” at a noon luncheon Monday at the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, 720 S. Michigan Ave. $75 (proceeds go to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.). 847-433-8099.

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