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Helga didn't recognise her own mother until she heard her voice. Her 10 days at Auschwitz were worse than the three years at Terezín, but Helga suspects it was

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Helga Weiss three days before her family were deported in December 1941. Helga Weiss three days before her family were deported in December 1941.

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Thanks to her subterfuge, she was one of only 150 to 1,500 children believed to have survived of the 15,000 sent to Terezín.

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.

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Before Weiss was sent to the Nazi-controlled ghetto of Terezín as a child, she witnessed the insidious progress of the Holocaust in Prague.

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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.

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The private journals of Helga Weiss are to be published in the UK for the first time next year by Viking Press, while foreign rights have been snapped up by publishing houses across the world.

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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.

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Helga Weiss is the woman who survived after her family got deported by fooling The Nazis during the Holocaust

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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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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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The schoolgirl who survived the Holocaust by fooling the Nazis

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The woman who survived the Holocaust by fooling the Nazis

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The woman who survived the Holocaust by fooling the Nazis