Resister project by AUBREE CASTO https://padlet.com/castoaubree26/a4rmtt2x3667c2lj The devasting yet inspiring story of Helga Weiss en-us 2022-02-15 16:06:03 UTC 2022-02-18 16:47:21 UTC hello@padlet.com Helga Weiss was sent to a concentration camp with her mother and was able to fool Josef Mengele and lie about her age and ability to work. She was able to resist the gas chamber by fooling the Nazi’s. Helga is one of only 100 children to survive Auschwitz out of the 15,000 sent there from the concentration camp at Terezín. castoaubree26 https://padlet.com/castoaubree26/a4rmtt2x3667c2lj/wish/2048932911 2022-02-15 16:08:49 UTC https://padlet.com/castoaubree26/a4rmtt2x3667c2lj/wish/2048932911 Helga’s motivation was to survive, even her mother helped fool the Nazi’s by saying that Helga was her daughters older sister and that she was fit to work so she wouldn’t be sent to the gas chamber. She prayed she wouldn't die after her mother because she was scared to be alone. castoaubree26 https://padlet.com/castoaubree26/a4rmtt2x3667c2lj/wish/2048935871 2022-02-15 16:09:59 UTC https://padlet.com/castoaubree26/a4rmtt2x3667c2lj/wish/2048935871 On Auschwitz 1944, Helga and her mother fooled the Nazi’s and was able to work in the camp for 10 days but was at3 different camps. But was released on May 5, 1945. castoaubree26 https://padlet.com/castoaubree26/a4rmtt2x3667c2lj/wish/2048937503 2022-02-15 16:10:38 UTC https://padlet.com/castoaubree26/a4rmtt2x3667c2lj/wish/2048937503 The impact was that Helga survived the Holocaust and got to share her awful experience with others and now we can learn about the awful treatments and can honor the lives that were lost. castoaubree26 https://padlet.com/castoaubree26/a4rmtt2x3667c2lj/wish/2048939213 2022-02-15 16:11:17 UTC https://padlet.com/castoaubree26/a4rmtt2x3667c2lj/wish/2048939213 After the resistance and fooling Helga survived the Holocaust and got to live her life in Prague as an artist. The Nazi’s never found out and Helga never recieved punishment. castoaubree26 https://padlet.com/castoaubree26/a4rmtt2x3667c2lj/wish/2048939775 2022-02-15 16:11:31 UTC https://padlet.com/castoaubree26/a4rmtt2x3667c2lj/wish/2048939775 "I asked Helga whether it had felt wonderful to be liberated," said Butterfield. "She said, 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." Helga grew up Jewish and on one day her father was taken to Auschwitz soon killed not long after helga and her mother were taken as well where Helga was able to fool the Nazi’s by lieing about her age and saying that she was fit to work, this resistance made helga survive the Holocaust and become an artist to show others her horrible experience. castoaubree26 https://padlet.com/castoaubree26/a4rmtt2x3667c2lj/wish/2048942033 2022-02-15 16:12:25 UTC https://padlet.com/castoaubree26/a4rmtt2x3667c2lj/wish/2048942033 castoaubree26 https://padlet.com/castoaubree26/a4rmtt2x3667c2lj/wish/2048957125 2022-02-15 16:18:11 UTC https://padlet.com/castoaubree26/a4rmtt2x3667c2lj/wish/2048957125 castoaubree26 https://padlet.com/castoaubree26/a4rmtt2x3667c2lj/wish/2048960469 2022-02-15 16:19:29 UTC https://padlet.com/castoaubree26/a4rmtt2x3667c2lj/wish/2048960469 castoaubree26 https://padlet.com/castoaubree26/a4rmtt2x3667c2lj/wish/2048967528 2022-02-15 16:22:17 UTC https://padlet.com/castoaubree26/a4rmtt2x3667c2lj/wish/2048967528 castoaubree26 https://padlet.com/castoaubree26/a4rmtt2x3667c2lj/wish/2048978932 2022-02-15 16:27:03 UTC https://padlet.com/castoaubree26/a4rmtt2x3667c2lj/wish/2048978932 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sQ_xoLwy4Ko castoaubree26 https://padlet.com/castoaubree26/a4rmtt2x3667c2lj/wish/2048994716 2022-02-15 16:33:59 UTC https://padlet.com/castoaubree26/a4rmtt2x3667c2lj/wish/2048994716 Where all the information is held: castoaubree26 https://padlet.com/castoaubree26/a4rmtt2x3667c2lj/wish/2048996027 Thorpe, Vanessa. “The schoolgirl who survived the Holocaust by fooling the Nazis”. The Guardian, 15 Oct 2011, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/oct/16/schoolgirl-who-fooled-the-nazis. Accessed 14 February 2022Cochrane, Kira. “My diary of a Nazi death camp childhood”. The Guardian, 2 Feb 2013, https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/feb/22/helga-weiss-diary-nazi-death-camp. Accessed 14 February 2022]]> 2022-02-15 16:34:35 UTC https://padlet.com/castoaubree26/a4rmtt2x3667c2lj/wish/2048996027