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Helga Weiss

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An artist who escaped and survived the Holocaust

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Auschwitz

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This happened in 1944

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When a Jewish schoolgirl Helga Weiss was directed off the train at Auschwitz, she was threatened with death in the gas chambers

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Along with all the others considered too young or too old to work. Helga was sent to four different Nazi camps with her mother.

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On October 4, 1944, Helga and her mother were transported to Auschwitz and had to face Mengele, who was directing children and older women towards the gas chambers and the other fit adults towards the forced labor camp.

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She told her story about her grim life, and how freedom was gradually decreasing before she was shipped to Auschwitz with her mother in 1944.

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This picture is her now known, went on to become a famous artist in the Czech Republic

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Helga Weiss, an artist in Prague, escaped death at Auschwitz to lie to Josef Mengele about her age and was fit to work on an Auschwitz station platform in 1944. She did that so that she can help her mother so they could manage to save their lives.

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/oct/16/schoolgirl-who-fooled-the-nazis

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2049966/How-Jewish-schoolgirl-escaped-clutches-Nazi-Angel-Death-survived-Auschwitz.html

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NEVER AGAIN - A song to remember the Holocaust

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2dKMDz9b64

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This picture is her now known, went on to become a famous artist in the Czech Republic