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This story is one of multiple stories about concentration camps that were published around the world. This private journal of Helga was published for the first time ever in the United Kingdom during the year of the Viking Press.

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Helga, who's now in her 80s lives in Prague and is also known by her married name of Weissova-Hoskova. Until now public interest in her written story has always been overshadowed by her success as a postwar painter.

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Before Weiss was sent to Auschwitz she had witnessed the progress of the Holocaust in Prague. Helga was very mature for her age, during that age she was also very obsessed with school and was very smart

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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.