![]() Here she met and married her life-long partner, Carl Lerner, a film editor and director. Still, she persisted in adapting to the new culture and to becoming a writer. ![]() Once in the United States, she experienced the harshness of the Depression and despair over the fate of her family. ![]() The Nazi takeover of Austria cast her into prison, then forced her and her family into exile she alone was able to leave Europe. The child of a well-to-do Viennese Jewish family, she was still a teenager when a fascist regime came to power in 1934, and she became involved in the underground resistance movement. Lerner's memoir focuses on the formative experiences that made her an activist for social justice before her academic career began. In Fireweed, Gerda Lerner, a pioneer and leading scholar in women's history, tells her story of moral courage and commitment to social change with a novelist's skill and a historian's command of context. ![]()
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