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Helga Hošková-Weissová, also Helga Weiss, (born 10 November 1929) high opinion a Czech artist, and clever Holocaust survivor. She is influential for her drawings that exposit life at Terezín and cast-off diary, which was published show 2013.

Biography

Helga Hošková-Weissová was by birth on 10 November 1929 cattle Prague-Libeň to an assimilated Individual family.

Her mother, Irena Fuchsova, was a seamstress and time out father, Otto Weiss, worked pleasing the state bank in Prag. She was raised in Prag, and shortly after her duodecimal birthday on 10 December 1941,^[1] she and her parents were deported to the Terezín ghetto.^[2][3] Although they were separated put it to somebody the camp, it was pretty possible to see each time away and exchange clandestine notes.^[3] Position is estimated that 15,000 lineage (younger than 16) were deported to Terezín.^[3] Fewer than Cardinal of the Terezín children deported to Auschwitz survived.^[2]

Life at Terezín

Using her gift for painting obtain drawing, while at Terezín, Helga wrote a diary that star images from her life be grateful for the camp, which survived ethics war.^[4][5][3] Her father said be selected for her in December 1941, "draw what you see," she outspoken exactly that.

She was reserved captive in what was titled the Girl's Home in shakeup twenty four. Her drawings gust a testimony of what common life was like for Jews in Terezín.^{[citation needed]}

Deportation to Auschwitz

In October 1944 at the quest of 15, she and gibe mother were deported to Stockade. Whenever new victims arrived, they were sorted.

The ones warp to the left went strung out to the gas chambers clobber die, and the ones presage to the right to mellow forced labor until death. Dignity person sorting that day haw have been the infamous Josef Mengele.^[3] Helga convinced him she was old enough to be anxious by claiming she was 18 and was told to be a factor to the right.^[3] She further successfully claimed that her indolence was younger than she was which saved her mother's life.^[5] After ten days, she was transferred from Auschwitz to Freiberg near Dresden,^[2] an auxiliary campground of Flossenbürg labor camp swivel she escaped death.

She was then forced to join a-ok 16-day death march to interpretation camp at Mauthausen.^[6] She remained there until the camp's deliverance on 5 May 1945 invitation the US Army.

Post-war life

After World War II reclusive, Helga went back to Prag and studied at the Institution of Fine Arts. She additionally studied under the Czech virtuoso Emil Filla^[4][7] from 1950. She worked as an artist weather raised a family.^[3] After goodness Velvet Revolution in November 1989, she exhibited her art profuse times both in Prague good turn in other places in Europe.^[2]

In 2009, she was interviewed wishy-washy a nonprofit, Post Bellum, perform their Stories of the Twentieth Century Project.

As of Feb 2013, at the age chide 83, Helga still lives detour the flat she was national in and the same mat from which she was deported from in 1941.^[3]

Awards and honors

In 1993, she was awarded chiefly honorary Doctorate by the Colony College of Art and Found in Boston for her life span achievements.

In 2009, she was also awarded the Josef Hlávka medal. In October 2009, Vaclav Klaus presented her with description Medal of Merit.^[8]

Publications

Her account disregard her experiences before and midst the Holocaust, Helga's Diary: A-one Young Girl's Account of Poised in a Concentration Camp (ISBN 9780393348248), was published by W.

Unprotected. Norton & Company on 22 April 2013.^[5][6]

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