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Photo of Helga before she was taken to the camp with her parents.

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This is an article about the diary she wrote.

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Written in spare prose and infused with a touching mixture of a child’s drive for discovery and an adult’s dread of a wartime future, Helga’s Diary touches raw nerve

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This is the article that Helga wrote when arriving to Auschwitz.

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Arriving at Auschwitz, October 4, 1944: From the Diary of Helga Weiss

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The following is an excerpt from Helga's Diary: A Young Girl's Account of Life in a Concentration Camp. In 1944, Helga Weiss was fifteen years old. We might have been able to get out of it, but we...

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This is Helga Weiss describing her experience and her diary.

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Helga's Diary was a huge historical help because it let researchers to find out what really happened in an extermination camps and how Jews were escorted their

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When the Nazis took over Helga Weiss was only 11 years old. She along with her mother were being confronted by Nazi officer Josef Mengele when she lied about her age making her able to work and not go into the death chamber. Her mother backed up her saying this by telling the officer that Helga was her daughters older sister. With this Helga was sent to the forced labor camps and not the gas chamber. Her story and resitance went done in history. She wrote a diary of her day to day life making it clear the unfairness and terribleness of the extermination camps.

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Helga was ll years old when Poland was invaded by the Nazis. It was October of 1944 when she was sent to the extermination camp. She is still alive to this day.

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This a death camp, or extermination camps, the Nazi's used these to tortures and essentially kill the Jewish people.