https://padlet.com/s23500593/4elyf979vln3gotm en-us 2022-02-11 21:00:04 UTC 2025-11-06 07:35:17 UTC hello@padlet.com s23500593 https://padlet.com/s23500593/4elyf979vln3gotm/wish/2043183940 2022-02-11 21:10:32 UTC https://padlet.com/s23500593/4elyf979vln3gotm/wish/2043183940 s23500593 https://padlet.com/s23500593/4elyf979vln3gotm/wish/2043205909 Helga Weiss (Born 1929, Now 92 yrs old.) Is a holocaust survivor known for her artistry and diary that included excerpts and images from her life in the camp. Her father had told her at a young age that she should "draw what she see's" and ever since then that's exactly what she did. Her diary depicts what everyday life was like for the Jews in the camps.]]> 2022-02-11 21:35:20 UTC https://padlet.com/s23500593/4elyf979vln3gotm/wish/2043205909 s23500593 https://padlet.com/s23500593/4elyf979vln3gotm/wish/2043207247 2022-02-11 21:36:50 UTC https://padlet.com/s23500593/4elyf979vln3gotm/wish/2043207247 s23500593 https://padlet.com/s23500593/4elyf979vln3gotm/wish/2049405756 Before she was sent to a Nazi-controlled camp Weiss had witnessed a lot of progress from the Holocaust in Prague (Where she grew up). "One thing after another was forbidden" first, the employees lost their jobs then they were banned from parks swimming pools, sports clubs, etc., and then Weiss was banned from school at age 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." Weiss Says.]]> 2022-02-15 19:36:17 UTC https://padlet.com/s23500593/4elyf979vln3gotm/wish/2049405756 s23500593 https://padlet.com/s23500593/4elyf979vln3gotm/wish/2049408525 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQ_xoLwy4Ko]]> 2022-02-15 19:37:42 UTC https://padlet.com/s23500593/4elyf979vln3gotm/wish/2049408525 s23500593 https://padlet.com/s23500593/4elyf979vln3gotm/wish/2049428223 “all of us are crying silently, but we don't let our emotions show.”]]> 2022-02-15 19:47:59 UTC https://padlet.com/s23500593/4elyf979vln3gotm/wish/2049428223 s23500593 https://padlet.com/s23500593/4elyf979vln3gotm/wish/2049435608 2022-02-15 19:51:59 UTC https://padlet.com/s23500593/4elyf979vln3gotm/wish/2049435608 s23500593 https://padlet.com/s23500593/4elyf979vln3gotm/wish/2049570553 Helga had many camp related things in  her diary. Her diary shows how the imagination of a child deals with very traumatic things such as the holocaust for example she would draw and write things like thunderous steps, the roar of the ghetto guards, the banging of doors and hysterical weeping as these were the things she often heard.]]> 2022-02-15 21:15:37 UTC https://padlet.com/s23500593/4elyf979vln3gotm/wish/2049570553 s23500593 https://padlet.com/s23500593/4elyf979vln3gotm/wish/2049580479 Helga was transported to 4 different camps, and was able to survive each one. one of these camps included Auschwitz and while she was there, Nazi's were transporting all woman and children to the gas chambers. Weiss, along with about 149 other children out of the 1500 children at the camp, survived thanks to her subterfuge (deceit used in order to achieve one's goal).]]> 2022-02-15 21:22:59 UTC https://padlet.com/s23500593/4elyf979vln3gotm/wish/2049580479 s23500593 https://padlet.com/s23500593/4elyf979vln3gotm/wish/2049585058 Weiss, after WW2, went back to Prague to study at the Academy of Fine Arts where she worked under Czech artist Emil Filla. after working with Filla she became an artist and raised a family.]]> 2022-02-15 21:26:19 UTC https://padlet.com/s23500593/4elyf979vln3gotm/wish/2049585058 s23500593 https://padlet.com/s23500593/4elyf979vln3gotm/wish/2049589048 Helga was asked, in one of her interviews, if being liberated had been a wonderful experience for her, to which she responded, "no, it was not that special because by that point she was so ill and had seen so many terrible things it was hard to feel anything."]]> 2022-02-15 21:29:10 UTC https://padlet.com/s23500593/4elyf979vln3gotm/wish/2049589048