https://padlet.com/rippetoej/g8189jrza5f1 Made for the lives that were lost en-us 2018-12-04 21:07:19 UTC 2018-12-10 20:59:21 UTC hello@padlet.com rippetoej https://padlet.com/rippetoej/g8189jrza5f1/wish/311145424 2018-12-04 21:10:32 UTC https://padlet.com/rippetoej/g8189jrza5f1/wish/311145424 rippetoej https://padlet.com/rippetoej/g8189jrza5f1/wish/311591886 "I believe,in the end love wins."]]> 2018-12-05 20:36:47 UTC https://padlet.com/rippetoej/g8189jrza5f1/wish/311591886 rippetoej https://padlet.com/rippetoej/g8189jrza5f1/wish/311592663 2018-12-05 20:38:48 UTC https://padlet.com/rippetoej/g8189jrza5f1/wish/311592663 rippetoej https://padlet.com/rippetoej/g8189jrza5f1/wish/311597127 Helga Weiss was born in November of 1929 in Prague-Liben to an assimilated Jewish family.(Thorpe)]]> 2018-12-05 20:50:00 UTC https://padlet.com/rippetoej/g8189jrza5f1/wish/311597127 rippetoej https://padlet.com/rippetoej/g8189jrza5f1/wish/311598263 Helga wrote a diary that included images form her life in the camp,which survived the war.Her father had told her,"Draw what you see,"and she did exactly that.(Thorpe)]]> 2018-12-05 20:53:02 UTC https://padlet.com/rippetoej/g8189jrza5f1/wish/311598263 rippetoej https://padlet.com/rippetoej/g8189jrza5f1/wish/311599698 2018-12-05 20:57:17 UTC https://padlet.com/rippetoej/g8189jrza5f1/wish/311599698 rippetoej https://padlet.com/rippetoej/g8189jrza5f1/wish/311604904 In October 1944 at the age of fifteen,she and her mother were deported to Auschwitz.When they were being sorted,Helga lied to the sorter by saying she was 18 and able to work.(Thorpe)]]> 2018-12-05 21:13:43 UTC https://padlet.com/rippetoej/g8189jrza5f1/wish/311604904 rippetoej https://padlet.com/rippetoej/g8189jrza5f1/wish/311605093 2018-12-05 21:14:14 UTC https://padlet.com/rippetoej/g8189jrza5f1/wish/311605093 rippetoej https://padlet.com/rippetoej/g8189jrza5f1/wish/312041520 2018-12-06 20:58:33 UTC https://padlet.com/rippetoej/g8189jrza5f1/wish/312041520 rippetoej https://padlet.com/rippetoej/g8189jrza5f1/wish/312042257 Before Weiss was sent to the Nazi-controlled ghetto of Terezín as a child, she witnessed the insidious progress of the Holocaust in Prague. "One thing after another was forbidden: employees lost their jobs, we were banned from the parks, swimming pools, sports clubs. I was banned from going to school when I was 10," Weiss told the Observer at the time of the London concert. "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."(Thorpe)]]> 2018-12-06 21:00:56 UTC https://padlet.com/rippetoej/g8189jrza5f1/wish/312042257 rippetoej https://padlet.com/rippetoej/g8189jrza5f1/wish/312042856 2018-12-06 21:02:51 UTC https://padlet.com/rippetoej/g8189jrza5f1/wish/312042856 rippetoej https://padlet.com/rippetoej/g8189jrza5f1/wish/312043667 2018-12-06 21:05:21 UTC https://padlet.com/rippetoej/g8189jrza5f1/wish/312043667 rippetoej https://padlet.com/rippetoej/g8189jrza5f1/wish/312044325
"She was obviously very clever and quite mature," said Butterfield. "She was obsessed with school at first, like any child of that age. Then there are terrible goodbyes as her friends begin to be taken off to Terezín. At each point Helga thinks the worst thing has happened to her so you see how people become used to bad things. Eventually, when the family are sent to the camp they take some cake and eat a little every day."(Thorpe)]]> 2018-12-06 21:07:32 UTC https://padlet.com/rippetoej/g8189jrza5f1/wish/312044325 rippetoej https://padlet.com/rippetoej/g8189jrza5f1/wish/312045442 She was then transferred from Auschwitz to a labour camp at Flossenbürg where she escaped death a second time when she was forced to join a 16-day "death march" to the camp at Mauthausen. She remained there until the end of the war. "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."(Thorpe)]]> 2018-12-06 21:11:22 UTC https://padlet.com/rippetoej/g8189jrza5f1/wish/312045442 rippetoej https://padlet.com/rippetoej/g8189jrza5f1/wish/312045914  The Weiss apartment was handed over to Germans and the family were transported to Terezín by rail. Known as Theresienstadt in German, the city on the north-west perimeter of Prague had become a transit hub where Czech Jews were put to work before being sent on to extermination camps. Her diary, which begins in 1939, records noises that still haunt her; the "thunderous steps, the roar of the ghetto guards, the banging of doors and hysterical weeping always sound – and foretell – the same".(Thorpe)]]> 2018-12-06 21:13:15 UTC https://padlet.com/rippetoej/g8189jrza5f1/wish/312045914 rippetoej https://padlet.com/rippetoej/g8189jrza5f1/wish/312046573  Weiss, an artist in her early 80s who lives in Prague and is also known by her married name of Weissova-Hoskova, mentioned her journal during occasional public appearances, but until now public interest in her written story has always been overshadowed by her success as a postwar painter. The British publisher Venetia Butterfield heard of the diary's existence last summer when Weiss visited London for a concert at the Wigmore Hall commemorating fellow inmates at the Terezín camp in former Czechoslovakia.(Thorpe)]]> 2018-12-06 21:15:30 UTC https://padlet.com/rippetoej/g8189jrza5f1/wish/312046573