Helga Weiss Diary by Keagan Nichols https://padlet.com/22knichols1/h1daew9au2am en-us 2020-02-25 21:44:44 UTC 2025-06-20 19:06:46 UTC hello@padlet.com Helga's published diary 22knichols1 https://padlet.com/22knichols1/h1daew9au2am/wish/450430616 Below is a picture of what Helga's published diary looks like. ]]> 2020-02-25 21:49:19 UTC https://padlet.com/22knichols1/h1daew9au2am/wish/450430616 One of Helga's Drawings 22knichols1 https://padlet.com/22knichols1/h1daew9au2am/wish/450430739 Helga was a great artist and her father instructed her to draw the things that she saw.]]> 2020-02-25 21:49:37 UTC https://padlet.com/22knichols1/h1daew9au2am/wish/450430739 Photo of Helga 22knichols1 https://padlet.com/22knichols1/h1daew9au2am/wish/450430905 Below is a photo of Helga taken 3 days before she was taken to a ghetto camp. ]]> 2020-02-25 21:49:54 UTC https://padlet.com/22knichols1/h1daew9au2am/wish/450430905 Photo of Helga's Family 22knichols1 https://padlet.com/22knichols1/h1daew9au2am/wish/450430990 From the left, Helga's Mother Irena Weiss, Helga's paternal grandmother Sophie, Helga's father Otto Weiss, and in front is Helga herself. ]]> 2020-02-25 21:50:09 UTC https://padlet.com/22knichols1/h1daew9au2am/wish/450430990 Photo of Helga 22knichols1 https://padlet.com/22knichols1/h1daew9au2am/wish/450431098 Below is a photo of Helga Weiss while she was talking in a recorded interview.]]> 2020-02-25 21:50:27 UTC https://padlet.com/22knichols1/h1daew9au2am/wish/450431098 Helga Weiss Interview 22knichols1 https://padlet.com/22knichols1/h1daew9au2am/wish/450431415 Watch this video as Helga talks about life in the camp(s) and her diary. ]]> 2020-02-25 21:51:13 UTC https://padlet.com/22knichols1/h1daew9au2am/wish/450431415 22knichols1 https://padlet.com/22knichols1/h1daew9au2am/wish/450435843 "Thunderous steps, the roar of the ghetto guards, the banging of doors and hysterical weeping always sound – and foretell – the same."
-Helga Weiss

]]> 2020-02-25 22:02:35 UTC https://padlet.com/22knichols1/h1daew9au2am/wish/450435843 22knichols1 https://padlet.com/22knichols1/h1daew9au2am/wish/450436673 "My father told me that, whatever happens, we must remain human, so that we do not die like cattle."
-Helga Weiss
]]> 2020-02-25 22:05:09 UTC https://padlet.com/22knichols1/h1daew9au2am/wish/450436673 22knichols1 https://padlet.com/22knichols1/h1daew9au2am/wish/450436860 "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."
-Venetia Butterfield, the women that published Helga's Diary
]]> 2020-02-25 22:05:39 UTC https://padlet.com/22knichols1/h1daew9au2am/wish/450436860 22knichols1 https://padlet.com/22knichols1/h1daew9au2am/wish/450437421 "Helga laughs explosively, a sound still full of shock and incredulity. They hadn't known about the gas chambers, the death camps. 'We arrived and saw smoking chimneys – we thought it was a factory.'"
-an article by theguardian.com
]]> 2020-02-25 22:07:24 UTC https://padlet.com/22knichols1/h1daew9au2am/wish/450437421 22knichols1 https://padlet.com/22knichols1/h1daew9au2am/wish/450438360 In 1944, Helga Weiss and her mother fooled the most reviled man in modern history, Josef Mengele. Helga claimed she was old enough to work and her mother Irena, claimed she was Helga's older sister, as the together mothers and children were sent to the gas chambers. ]]> 2020-02-25 22:10:38 UTC https://padlet.com/22knichols1/h1daew9au2am/wish/450438360 22knichols1 https://padlet.com/22knichols1/h1daew9au2am/wish/450439545 Helga was one out of 100 children that survived Auschwitz out of the 15,000 children sent there. Her diary is an important record of life in the concentration camps.]]> 2020-02-25 22:14:26 UTC https://padlet.com/22knichols1/h1daew9au2am/wish/450439545 22knichols1 https://padlet.com/22knichols1/h1daew9au2am/wish/450439904 Helga and her mother, Irena were sent to Terezín, Auschwitz, Freiberg and Mauthausen camps.]]> 2020-02-25 22:15:41 UTC https://padlet.com/22knichols1/h1daew9au2am/wish/450439904