The school girl who survived the holocaust by https://padlet.com/26amollick/2yl3knma1j0hegnq en-us 2024-03-07 12:59:19 UTC 2024-03-08 01:05:46 UTC hello@padlet.com 26amollick https://padlet.com/26amollick/2yl3knma1j0hegnq/wish/2909798659 2024-03-07 13:02:24 UTC https://padlet.com/26amollick/2yl3knma1j0hegnq/wish/2909798659 What happened? 26amollick https://padlet.com/26amollick/2yl3knma1j0hegnq/wish/2909801047 In 1944, Helga's life took a dramatic turn as she and her family were forced into horrendous living conditions in the Terezin ghetto. A concentration camp designed to deceive the international community about the true nature of the Holocaust. Helga weis 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 was almost 100% sure she was gonna die

  • She was 14 years old and has never been religous but as she waited in Auschwitz she prayed

  • Her father encouraged her to "draw what you see" so she could depict the life of the camps

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  • She was deported to Auschwitz in 1943

  • worked in forced labor camps near Hamburg before being sent on a death march to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp

  • she was sick with typhus, typhoid fever and tuberculosis

    • ]]>     2024-03-07 16:11:33 UTC https://padlet.com/26amollick/2yl3knma1j0hegnq/wish/2910069664     26amollick https://padlet.com/26amollick/2yl3knma1j0hegnq/wish/2910071713 2024-03-07 16:12:58 UTC https://padlet.com/26amollick/2yl3knma1j0hegnq/wish/2910071713 26amollick https://padlet.com/26amollick/2yl3knma1j0hegnq/wish/2910072836 2024-03-07 16:13:50 UTC https://padlet.com/26amollick/2yl3knma1j0hegnq/wish/2910072836 people involved: 26amollick https://padlet.com/26amollick/2yl3knma1j0hegnq/wish/2910270918 Helga and her mom were both dragged into the camps in 1933 as she was just a 3 year old girl dragged into the camp

    ]]>     2024-03-07 18:55:24 UTC https://padlet.com/26amollick/2yl3knma1j0hegnq/wish/2910270918     Helgas experience: 26amollick https://padlet.com/26amollick/2yl3knma1j0hegnq/wish/2910274541 Helga created a diary on everything that happened when she was in these camps. What is so important about the diary is that it is Helga's reality. You are there with her. It is a very different thing from a memoir.

    ]]>     2024-03-07 18:58:41 UTC https://padlet.com/26amollick/2yl3knma1j0hegnq/wish/2910274541     Today: 26amollick https://padlet.com/26amollick/2yl3knma1j0hegnq/wish/2910629682 Helga is now 94 years old and has one kid named Jiří Hošek. She even has grandchildren now and has written her own book ¨helgas diary¨

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