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The first pages of the diary she started when she was eight talks about the nazi threats and what they did once they invaded her home, uniforms for jews, air raid sirens, no jewish children in schools, jewish people being fired from their jobs,  threat of transports

Apartment in Prague was  handed to nazis when she and her family got carted off to terezin.

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Now 90 years old. Born November 10, 1929

Lives in Prague again in the same apartment that she lived in before the holocaust

Went to a concert in London at wigmore hall to commemorate her fellow inmates
Her late husband, son, and granddaughter are all musicians.

Mother died at 84

She now wears a necklace made of a silver chain and a stone shaped like a butterfly wing

Lots of butterflies around her apartment, be cause they symbolize freedom she says

on the 5th of may, 1945, the ss officers ran away, and helga and her mother survived

In july of the same year, her uncles showed up with the diaries and drawings she had entrusted him when she was sent to auschwitz, he had bricked them into the walls of his barracks.
Only footage of terezin that exists is a promotional video to convince people it was a good place, they got a group of prisoners, handed them fruit baskets and good clothes and made them walk along and sing.

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she Went to terezin at age 12

When sent to terezin, they were allowed 50kg luggage, helga packed clothes, two small dolls, water colors, and crayons
1944 on an auschwitz train station. Lied about age to one of the most feared nazi generals, said was fit to work. Managed to get away with it and go to a labor camp instead of the gas chamber., mom claimed that daughter was actually the older sister of daughter.

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When they arrived, her dad was sent to themens barracks, ad helga and her mom went to the womens, later a children's barracks was built and helga moved in with girls her age, there they tried to stay human and young, so they had dances and celebrated birthdays and holidays.

When she reached terezin, she was put in a room w/ 30 other girls her age, saw her parents for an hour each day and promised her father to think of him everyday at 7 pm, her promised the same to her.
When shoved in a room and told to choose a dress, coat, and pair of shoes, she managed to grab a red dress that bled dye down her legs when it rained, a mismatched pair of high heeled shoes, and a long green coat.

her Brother died at terezin

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“The value of life. That people have to be kind to each other.

And never to throw away food or clothes. I saw some shoes in the street the other day, and I remember how shoes or a piece of bread would save somebody’s life. And very often if I have difficulty climbing the steps to the fourth floor, in my thoughts I see the steps in the quarry at Mauthausen, and the prisoners who had to climb to the top, carrying a rock – and then I am able to climb the steps.”

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"I never thought about it, but maybe she didn't. Maybe she had no reason."

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Grew up and fell in love for the first time at terezin

she Met a boy who was aged 14 who wrote a poem that ended, butterflies don't live here, in the ghetto.
Recorded her experiences in both words and pictures

she drew her and her friend sharing a bunk in 1943, and pushing prams together in 1957, on the last picture, helga said that her friend died in auschwitz before she turned 15.
helga was one  of 150-1500 out of 15000 children to survive terezin
Her father was loaded onto a cart  in auschwitz and she never saw him again. He died

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Helga on the beginning of the deportation and segregation

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Helga on the beginning of the deportation and segregation

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Her diary, which begins in 1939, records noises that still haunt her; the "thunderous steps, the roar of the ghetto guards, the banging of doors and hysterical weeping always sound – and foretell – the same".

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she Came to terms with dying just so long as she didn’t die after her mother, she was 14
She and her mom stuck together through four concentration camps between 1941 and 1945: terezin, auschwitz, freiberg, mauthausen.

Spent ten days in auschwitz, where all the ladies hair was shaved off, and said it was worse than the three years at terezin
Went to auschwitz, not long enough to be tattooed, but to remember her number, 54391, ten days, then sent to a transport destined for death, on the 5th of may, 1945, the ss officers ran away, and helga and her mother survived

One more day without food( they had five days without and before that had only 2 spoons of sugar, 2 potatoes and a half cup of tea over 4 days) and helga says her mother probably wouldn’t have survived, lucky they were liberated

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Helga on the progression of the holocaust in her town before she was deported

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Helga on the progression of the holocaust in her town before she was deported

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"One thing after another was forbidden: employees lost their jobs, we were banned from the parks, swimming pools, sports clubs. I was banned from going to school when I was 10,"

"I was always asking my parents, 'What's happening?', and became angry at them if I thought they were trying to hide something, to protect me."

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written by Helga's friend in  Helga's journal, friend soon died

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written by Helga's friend in  Helga's journal, friend soon died

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“Forget the hours of suffering, but never the lessons they taught you.”

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“Vier und fünfzig drei hundert ein und neunzig.”

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Helga on after being shaved and trying to find her mother

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Helga on after being shaved and trying to find her mother

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“And not only from the head – from everywhere. After that, we couldn't recognise each other. I had a lot of hair, dark blonde, long enough, and I remember my mother finished earlier than me. I was looking for her, I couldn’t recognise her – my mother, the same. We were looking for voices.”

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“For one plum, you could pay with your life.”

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HELGA HOŠKOVÁ-WEISS on role models and life happiness in general | English subtitles

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Helga when asked about the butterflies in her house

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Helga when asked about the butterflies in her house

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“I have a lot of butterflies,” she agrees, and points at the stained-glass orange one embedded in the window, four dangling in the net curtain, a blue one pinned to the wall. “Because butterflies mean freedom.”

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shes known for her journals and art from her time in concentration camps. shes also known for tricking the nazis into thinking she was older than she was.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8_bZbTrbaA
The University of Maine
Shakespeare, Nicholas. “Helga Weiss: an Interview with a Holocaust Survivor.” The Telegraph, Telegraph Media Group, 19 Feb. 2013, www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/9873580/Helga-Weiss-an-interview-with-a-holocaust-survivor.html.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_AyjjBAV8c

The Mirror
Headout Blog

Thorpe, Vanessa. “The Schoolgirl Who Survived the Holocaust by Fooling the Nazis.” The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 15 Oct. 2011, www.theguardian.com/world/2011/oct/16/schoolgirl-who-fooled-the-nazis.

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Helga is a holocaust survivor who wrote and drew about her experiences.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wpv-vGScrvU

The Guardian
Cochrane, Kira. “My Diary of a Nazi Death Camp Childhood.” The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 22 Feb. 2013, www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/feb/22/helga-weiss-diary-nazi-death-camp.