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Helga's Diary
Weiss, Helga; Bermel, Neil; Prose, Francine
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Description for Helga's Diary
Paperback. The remarkable diary of a young girl who survived the Holocaust--appearing inEnglish for the first time. Num Pages: 272 pages, 16 color paintings; 12 photographs. BIC Classification: BGH; DN; HBTZ1; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 220.
In 1939, Helga Weiss was a young Jewish schoolgirl in Prague. As she endured the first waves of the Nazi invasion, she began to document her experiences in a diary. During her internment at the concentration camp of Terezín, Helga’s uncle hid her diary in a brick wall. Of the 15,000 children brought to Terezín and deported to Auschwitz, there were only one hundred survivors. Helga was one of them. Miraculously, she was able to recover her diary from its hiding place after the war. These pages reveal Helga’s powerful story through her own words and illustrations. Includes a special ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393348248
SKU
V9780393348248
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About Weiss, Helga; Bermel, Neil; Prose, Francine
Helga Weiss was born in Prague in 1929. After surviving the Holocaust and the Second World War, Helga returned to Prague, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, and became an artist. She has two children, three grandchildren, and lives to this day in the apartment where she was born. Francine Prose is the author of sixteen books of fiction, ... Read more
Reviews for Helga's Diary
"Touches raw nerves and contains the potential to send shock waves through the oeuvre of Holocaust memoirs…Astonishing."
Linda F. Burghardt - Jewish Book World "The most moving Holocaust diary published since Anne Frank."
Daily Telegraph "Describes the unfolding horrors of the Holocaust as seen through the eyes of a young girl. The young Helga responds to hardship with ... Read more
Linda F. Burghardt - Jewish Book World "The most moving Holocaust diary published since Anne Frank."
Daily Telegraph "Describes the unfolding horrors of the Holocaust as seen through the eyes of a young girl. The young Helga responds to hardship with ... Read more