https://padlet.com/teresapage6778/4g0nro0b4vgxp68v Welcome to our Bulletin board! Contribute by posting announcements, sharing achievements, and expressing thoughts to build a vibrant, interactive class community. Let's keep the conversation positive and supportive! en-us 2024-03-14 11:42:03 UTC 2024-03-14 12:04:32 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f4cd.png teresapage6778 https://padlet.com/teresapage6778/4g0nro0b4vgxp68v/wish/2918850576 2024-03-14 11:44:06 UTC https://padlet.com/teresapage6778/4g0nro0b4vgxp68v/wish/2918850576 teresapage6778 https://padlet.com/teresapage6778/4g0nro0b4vgxp68v/wish/2918852049 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.

]]> 2024-03-14 11:45:25 UTC https://padlet.com/teresapage6778/4g0nro0b4vgxp68v/wish/2918852049 teresapage6778 https://padlet.com/teresapage6778/4g0nro0b4vgxp68v/wish/2918852499 2024-03-14 11:45:50 UTC https://padlet.com/teresapage6778/4g0nro0b4vgxp68v/wish/2918852499 teresapage6778 https://padlet.com/teresapage6778/4g0nro0b4vgxp68v/wish/2918859114 2024-03-14 11:51:10 UTC https://padlet.com/teresapage6778/4g0nro0b4vgxp68v/wish/2918859114 teresapage6778 https://padlet.com/teresapage6778/4g0nro0b4vgxp68v/wish/2918860319 Helga is one of only 100 children to survive Auschwitz out of the 15,000 sent there from the concentration camp at Terezín, north of Prague. Altogether, between 1941 and 1945, she and her mother were sent to four camps: Terezín, Auschwitz, Freiberg and Mauthausen.

]]> 2024-03-14 11:52:04 UTC https://padlet.com/teresapage6778/4g0nro0b4vgxp68v/wish/2918860319 teresapage6778 https://padlet.com/teresapage6778/4g0nro0b4vgxp68v/wish/2918860620 2024-03-14 11:52:18 UTC https://padlet.com/teresapage6778/4g0nro0b4vgxp68v/wish/2918860620 teresapage6778 https://padlet.com/teresapage6778/4g0nro0b4vgxp68v/wish/2918867536 She resolved to say she was older than 14; her mother would pretend to be younger. In fact, the SS man didn't ask questions and sent them both to the right. "He pointed – I don't know if it was luck, fate, a miracle. I have friends who are still alive – they are the same age as I am – but their mothers were [sent to the left]. So I was lucky twice. Not only that I was not sent, but that I was together with my mother."

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]]> 2024-03-14 12:00:18 UTC https://padlet.com/teresapage6778/4g0nro0b4vgxp68v/wish/2918870798 teresapage6778 https://padlet.com/teresapage6778/4g0nro0b4vgxp68v/wish/2918871670 At Terezín, Helga met her first boyfriend, Ota, an orphan and chemistry student. He was in his mid-20s, she was not yet 15

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