https://padlet.com/9007451/uz1dz5acxxzh2cx1 Helga Weiss and her mother outsmarted Josef Mengele by saying Helga was her older to sister so she can go to labor camp instead of a death camp. en-us 2021-01-04 00:00:22 UTC 2021-01-07 20:39:44 UTC hello@padlet.com 9007451 https://padlet.com/9007451/uz1dz5acxxzh2cx1/wish/1065098514 Sites.google.com\holocaust\survivors 

the guardian.com 

Czechcenter.org 
telegraph.com

]]> 2021-01-07 20:29:09 UTC https://padlet.com/9007451/uz1dz5acxxzh2cx1/wish/1065098514 9007451 https://padlet.com/9007451/uz1dz5acxxzh2cx1/wish/1065101536 Helga Weiss helped fight against the Germans by lying and saying she was her older sister so she will be sent to a labor camp and not a death camp.  

]]> 2021-01-07 20:30:02 UTC https://padlet.com/9007451/uz1dz5acxxzh2cx1/wish/1065101536 9007451 https://padlet.com/9007451/uz1dz5acxxzh2cx1/wish/1065106967 Helga escaped death at Auschwitz by lying about her age and saying she was her older sister and she was fit to work.between 1941 through 1945 she and her mother were sent to 4 camps. Terezin, auschwitz, freiberg, and mauthausen. 

]]> 2021-01-07 20:31:36 UTC https://padlet.com/9007451/uz1dz5acxxzh2cx1/wish/1065106967 9007451 https://padlet.com/9007451/uz1dz5acxxzh2cx1/wish/1065108072 To avoid going to gas chambers and a death camp, Helga and her mother lied to Josef Mengele. 1944 Weiss and her mother were taken to Auschwitz where they were separated in groups of those who could work and those who were deemed not fit. Out of about 1,500 children only about 150 children survive including Helga. After moving to a different camp in Flossenburg she escaped death a second time when she was forced to join a 16 day death march to camp mauthausen. She remained there until the end of the war.

]]> 2021-01-07 20:31:57 UTC https://padlet.com/9007451/uz1dz5acxxzh2cx1/wish/1065108072 9007451 https://padlet.com/9007451/uz1dz5acxxzh2cx1/wish/1065111279 As one of the few children to survive many of these camps her impact was very influential. She remained strong throughout the whole time she remained in these camps. Also she helped her mother not go through those experiences alone.

]]> 2021-01-07 20:32:56 UTC https://padlet.com/9007451/uz1dz5acxxzh2cx1/wish/1065111279 9007451 https://padlet.com/9007451/uz1dz5acxxzh2cx1/wish/1065117494 when asked whether it had felt good to be liberated she responded “ no, it was not that special because by that point i was so ill and had seen so many terrible things it was hard to feel anything.”

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