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the schoolgirl who survived the holocaust by fooling the nazis ( link )

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the schoolgirl who survived the holocaust by fooling the nazis ( link )

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She was then transferred from Auschwitz to a labour camp at Flossenbürg where she escaped death a second time when she was forced to join a 16-day "death march" to the camp at Mauthausen. She remained there until the end of the war. "I asked Helga whether it had felt wonderful to be liberated," said Butterfield. "She said, no, it was not that special because by that point she was so ill and had seen so many terrible things it was hard to feel anything."

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https://mjhnyc.org/those-who-were-there-podcast-series/

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Museum of Jewish Heritage — A Living Memorial to the Holocaust

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“Those Who Were There” is a Holocaust history podcast that brings firsthand testimony of Holocaust survivors, liberators, and witnesses out of the archives.

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Those Who Were There Podcast Series

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Meaning moments to Helga Weiss ( infortmation ) 

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Meaning moments to Helga Weiss ( infortmation ) 

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Butterfield points out that memories of Terezín are not all painful. Weiss grew up there, fell in love for the first time, and spent time with both her parents, before her father was killed at Auschwitz. "My father told me that, whatever happens, we must remain human, so that we do not die like cattle," Weiss has said. "And I think that the will to create was an expression of the will to live, and survive, as human beings."

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The schoolgirl who survived the Holocaust by fooling the Nazis ( image )

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The schoolgirl who survived the Holocaust by fooling the Nazis ( image )

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The schoolgirl who survived the Holocaust by fooling the Nazis ( image )

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The schoolgirl who survived the Holocaust by fooling the Nazis ( image )

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Helga Weiss, now an artist in Prague, escaped death at Auschwitz by lying to Josef Mengele about her age and saying she was fit to work

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On an Auschwitz station platform in 1944, Helga Weiss and her mother fooled one of the most reviled men in modern history, Josef Mengele, and managed to save their lives. Not long into her teens, Weiss lied about her age, claiming she was old enough to work for her keep. Her mother persuaded the Nazis under Mengele's command that Helga was in fact her daughter's older sister, and she was sent to the forced labour barracks and not the gas chamber.

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Weiss, an artist in her early 80s who lives in Prague and is also known by her married name of Weissova-Hoskova, mentioned her journal during occasional public appearances, but until now public interest in her written story has always been overshadowed by her success as a postwar painter. The British publisher Venetia Butterfield heard of the diary's existence last summer when Weiss visited London for a concert at the Wigmore Hall commemorating fellow inmates at the Terezín camp in former Czechoslovakia.

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Wise Words about Helga From Butterfeild  ( information )

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Wise Words about Helga From Butterfeild  ( information )

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"I heard about the event and called someone in north London who knew Helga. They told me she was just about to get on a plane back to Prague, but that she was coming round for a coffee first," said Butterfield. "I raced up to see her and we talked for no more than 10 or 15 minutes. She is an amazing woman with a great, feisty attitude."

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Helga's Diary: A Young Girl's Account of Life in a Concentration Camp by Helga Weiss ( information )

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Helga's Diary: A Young Girl's Account of Life in a Concentration Camp by Helga Weiss ( information )

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For the next four years Helga lives here with her mother and the ability to see her father and other family members with some regularity. When the last of the original Aryan citizens vacate the town their houses are used and Helga moves into a dormitory for girls where she is able to create a circle of friends who study together, write plays and poetry and act as most thirteen-year-olds do. At the same time, she witnesses young men forced to dig their own graves before being hung and watches various extended family members loaded onto “transports” to other destinations. In September 1944 her father is conscripted for one of these transports. She will never see him again. Later that year, both she and her mother are put on a train that ends up in Auschwitz. By adding years to her age and subtracting from her mother’s they are able to stay out of the line for the gas chamber and to stay together but this is as far as their luck goes. Now there are no beds, their heads are shaved, there is no real food, and there are new sadistic routines such as standing for 6 hours in freezing rain, ostensibly for a roll call that never comes and moving to a new barracks every night.

We were always hungry; hope sustained us. We were no longer living off that quart of water and slice of bread; you can’t live off that. Now we live off the strength of our will. And we will survive! Someday, after all, the end must come.

After a month they are moved to a new camp, Freiberg, where they begin working twelve hour shifts in an airplane factory. With the approach of the Russians over 500 of them are loaded onto open coal cars and depart for German territory. After sixteen days, they arrive at Mauthausen, their final destination. On May 5, 1945 they are liberated and by May 21st Helga and her mother are back in Prague, where Helga lives to this day. Of 15,000 children in Terezin who were later deported to Auschwitz, Helga is one of 100 survivors.