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Title	:	Helga's Diary: A Young Girl's Account of Life in a Concentration Camp
Author	:	Helga Weiss
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 208 pages
Published	:	January 21st 2013 by W. W. Norton (first published 2012)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. World War II. Holocaust. History. Biography. Autobiography. Memoir. War

Helga's Diary: A Young Girl's Account of Life in a Concentration Camp Hardcover | Pages: 208 pages

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In 1939, Helga Weiss was an eleven-year-old Jewish schoolgirl in Prague, enduring the first wave of the Nazi invasion. As Helga witnessed Nazi brutality toward her friends and neighbors and eventually her own family she began documenting her experiences in a diary. In 1941, Helga and her parents were sent to the concentration camp of Terezin, where she continued to write with astonishing insight about her daily life. Before she was sent to Auschwitz in 1944, Helga's uncle, who worked in the Terezin records department, hid her diary and drawings in a brick wall. Miraculously, he was able to reclaim it for her after the war. Of the 15,000 children brought to Terezin and deported to Auschwitz, Helga was one of only 100 survivors.

Written in school exercise books and translated here for the first time, Helga's Diary is a strikingly immediate and exceptional firsthand account of the Holocaust.

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Original Title:	Helga’s Diary [Deník Helgy]
ISBN:	0393077977 (ISBN13: 9780393077971)
Edition Language:	English

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The best bit about this book are the illustrations that accompany the text drawn by the author in her youth. She is an excellent artist and they really give a feel for the places she describes.I went to Terezin in 2018 so was able to place a lot of the locations mentioned. Being an old fortress town in the Czech Republic, the layout is like that of a small town. It is a very odd place to visit, especially as it has now reverted back to a town, complete with shops and hotels. Amongst these are

I enjoyed this book expect for one flaw--the editing. There are incessant notes telling us "this sentence was added later" or "we removed a section here", "Helga actually means blank" etc. These notes interrupted the flow of the writing and just became annoying. I understand the desire for historical accuracy, but when so obsessively overdone, it doesn't work for a prose diary. With a better editor, this diary could be quite good.

I listed this as a young adult book because the author is in her childhood when she writes her diary (and after the war as she recounts all that she wasn't able to write in the moment, she writes her recollections as if they were happening right then, because she's so easily transported back (and it's so fresh in her mind) only like 15 and a half when the war ends.) However, this is a book EVERY person should read to get a feel for what it was like for kids during the Holocaust. Helga Weiss is

I bought this book in Prague that was recommended by a guide on a tour through Jewish Prague. Helga was a young girl when the Nazis occupated Prague. Her diary as Jewish girl growing up in Prague was enlightening to me about her experiences in a concentration camp near Prague-Terezin. This camp even though it was very grim, dirty, with little food, was better than death camps like Auschwitz. Helga was able to survive the war.Compared to The Diary of Anne Frank, the writing was not as good. She

"IF" you like the diary format, then this is a nearly unedited diary. By that I mean if I were to publish my diary, I would edit it for clarity and give it prose. A "real" diary is written sporadically over a length of time, and the authors tone, timing, emotions etc, will be all over the place. And by that you really do get the "real" thing here. I read about this subject often. I was hooked after reading Victor Frankel's Man's Search For Meaning. I am always interested to hear another survivor

Good bookThis book was good but I actually enjoyed the interview section of the book better than I did the diary part.

I liked this book for the same reasons I like all Holocaust books. However this time I really struggled with the writing style. I enjoyed reading about Helga, but I couldnt focus properly because of the way its written. Its really hard to get engrossed in a book when you dont like the writing. Some of the sentences werent written fully, and I didnt like the diary format. Rather than feeling like I was actually reading a diary, I felt like I was reading a story by an adult pretending to be a