https://padlet.com/fwells3/fj6irifp4q8p The schoolgirl who escaped the Holocaust by fooling the Nazis. en-us 2018-04-25 12:52:13 UTC 2018-04-27 14:39:23 UTC hello@padlet.com fwells3 https://padlet.com/fwells3/fj6irifp4q8p/wish/255202781 Helga Hoskova-Weissova was born in Prague in 1929 to her mother, Irena Fuchsova, and her father, Otto Weiss. In 1944 at an Auschwitz station platform Weiss lied about her age to the Nazis, and claimed she was old enough to work. This is why she is known as the schoolgirl who escaped the Holocaust by fooling the Nazis. One Nazis in general was Josef Mengele. Mengele was a member of the team of doctors responsible for the selection of victims to be killed in the gas chambers and for performing deadly human experiments on prisoners.

]]> 2018-04-25 12:59:28 UTC https://padlet.com/fwells3/fj6irifp4q8p/wish/255202781 fwells3 https://padlet.com/fwells3/fj6irifp4q8p/wish/255602138 Helga Weiss and her mother, Irena Fuchsova, were first sent to concentration camps in Terezin. In Terezin at the concentration camps, Weiss wrote about her time there. Her writings soon became an autobiography called, "Helga's Diary". Here is a little snip-it reading of Weiss's autobiography.]]> 2018-04-26 12:26:34 UTC https://padlet.com/fwells3/fj6irifp4q8p/wish/255602138 fwells3 https://padlet.com/fwells3/fj6irifp4q8p/wish/255609036 The impact that Helga Weiss had was she saved her and the rest of her family's life because she lied about her age, and her edge ability to work. Weiss was also one of only 150 to 1,500 children to survive of the 15,000 that were sent to Terezin.  ]]> 2018-04-26 12:45:46 UTC https://padlet.com/fwells3/fj6irifp4q8p/wish/255609036 fwells3 https://padlet.com/fwells3/fj6irifp4q8p/wish/255618520 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/oct/16/schoolgirl-who-fooled-the-nazis
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https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/helgas-diary-helga-weiss/1111085960?ean=9780393077971]]> 2018-04-26 13:04:36 UTC https://padlet.com/fwells3/fj6irifp4q8p/wish/255618520 fwells3 https://padlet.com/fwells3/fj6irifp4q8p/wish/255680924 "So that is what a concentration camp looks like; I could never imagine it. People have been living this way for several years. And we complained about Tereza­n. That was an absolute paradise compared to this."]]> 2018-04-26 14:56:27 UTC https://padlet.com/fwells3/fj6irifp4q8p/wish/255680924