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Despite the awful conditions Helga's artistic talents were shown in her diary. She sketched all of her different surroundings, capturing the faces of different faces and struggles with her other prisoners. These drawing and her diary enteries serve as evidence to the awful thinsg they endured.

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Helga just days after her parents were deported.

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On December 10th, 1941 a few days after her 12th birthday her parents were deported to the Terezin ghetto.

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Helgas life took a drastic turn when the Nazi invasion came through Europe. As a young Jewish girl, she witnessed the many different horrors of the Halocaust.

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Helga was just 12 years old when she began to write about her experiences in her diary. Through her words we gain the understanding of what Helga felt while facing unimaginable experiences she lived through. Some being the forced deportation of her family to the Terezin ghetto and later to the death camp, Aushwitz.

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Helga grew up in Prague with hew mother and father. She had a normal childhood.

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One good things about Helgas story other than her survival, but her ability to keep hope despite the pain and suffering she found moments of beauty. Her diary reflects her determination to see light among the darkness.

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“all of us—are crying silently, but we don’t let our emotions show.”
― Helga Weiss, Helga's Diary: A Young Girl's Account of Life in a Concentration Camp

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After the war Helga continued to use art as a way to express herself. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague and became a great artist. Her art is a contribution to a reminder of the resilience that can come after the darkness.

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Helga is now 94 years old who is know for escaping Nazis over four times and for being a Czetch artist.