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Helga's Diary: A Young Girl's Account of Life in a Concentration Camp

Helga Weiss
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In 1939, Helga Weiss was an eleven-year-old Jewish schoolgirl in Prague, enduring the first wave of the Nazi invasion. As Helga witnessed Nazi brutality toward her friends and neighbors and eventually her own family she began documenting her experiences in a diary. In 1941, Helga and her parents were sent to the concentration camp of Terezin, where she continued to write with astonishing insight about her daily life. Before she was sent to Auschwitz in 1944, Helga's uncle, who worked in the Terezin records department, hid her diary and drawings in a brick wall. Miraculously, he was able to reclaim it for her after the war. Of the 15,000 children brought to Terezin and deported to Auschwitz, Helga was one of only 100 survivors.

Written in school exercise books and translated here for the first time, Helga's Diary is a strikingly immediate and exceptional firsthand account of the Holocaust.
Format:
Hardcover
Pages:
208 pages
Publication:
2013
Publisher:
W. W. Norton
Edition:
First Edition, 1st
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
0393077977
ISBN13:
9780393077971
kindle Asin:
B007Q6XLJS

Helga's Diary: A Young Girl's Account of Life in a Concentration Camp

Helga Weiss
4.00/5 (1473 ratings)
Read Download
In 1939, Helga Weiss was an eleven-year-old Jewish schoolgirl in Prague, enduring the first wave of the Nazi invasion. As Helga witnessed Nazi brutality toward her friends and neighbors and eventually her own family she began documenting her experiences in a diary. In 1941, Helga and her parents were sent to the concentration camp of Terezin, where she continued to write with astonishing insight about her daily life. Before she was sent to Auschwitz in 1944, Helga's uncle, who worked in the Terezin records department, hid her diary and drawings in a brick wall. Miraculously, he was able to reclaim it for her after the war. Of the 15,000 children brought to Terezin and deported to Auschwitz, Helga was one of only 100 survivors.

Written in school exercise books and translated here for the first time, Helga's Diary is a strikingly immediate and exceptional firsthand account of the Holocaust.
Format:
Hardcover
Pages:
208 pages
Publication:
2013
Publisher:
W. W. Norton
Edition:
First Edition, 1st
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
0393077977
ISBN13:
9780393077971
kindle Asin:
B007Q6XLJS

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