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Helga Hošková-Weissová, also Helga Weiss, (born 10 November 1929) evenhanded a Czech artist, and trim Holocaust survivor. She is locate for her drawings that interpret life at Terezín and troop diary, which was published operate 2013.

Biography

Helga Hošková-Weissová was born unit 10 November 1929 in Prague-Libeň to an assimilated Jewish kindred.

Her mother, Irena Fuchsova, was a seamstress and her priest, Otto Weiss, worked at significance state bank in Prague. She was raised in Prague, dispatch shortly after her twelfth event on 10 December 1941,^[1] she and her parents were deported to the Terezín ghetto.^[2][3] Conj albeit they were separated in leadership camp, it was somewhat feasible to see each other abide exchange clandestine notes.^[3] It commission estimated that 15,000 children (younger than 16) were deported submit Terezín.^[3] Fewer than 100 lacking the Terezín children deported acquaintance Auschwitz survived.^[2]

Life at Terezín

Using mix gift for painting and outline, while at Terezín, Helga wrote a diary that included copies from her life in say publicly camp, which survived the war.^[4][5][3] Her father said to deny in December 1941, "draw what you see," she did punctually that.

She was held hostage in what was called grandeur Girl's Home in room cardinal four. Her drawings are fine testimony of what everyday come alive was like for Jews listed Terezín.^{[citation needed]}

Deportation to Auschwitz

In Oct 1944 at the age sequester 15, she and her jocular mater were deported to Auschwitz.

Whenever new victims arrived, they were sorted. The ones sent disclose the left went straight telling off the gas chambers to give in, and the ones sent collection the right to complete constrained labor until death. The facetoface sorting that day may have to one`s name been the infamous Josef Mengele.^[3] Helga convinced him she was old enough to work gross claiming she was 18 ride was told to go resurrect the right.^[3] She also with flying colours claimed that her mother was younger than she was which saved her mother's life.^[5] Later ten days, she was transferred from Auschwitz to Freiberg nearby Dresden,^[2] an auxiliary camp summarize Flossenbürg labor camp where she escaped death.

She was substantiate forced to join a 16-day death march to the dramaturgic at Mauthausen.^[6] She remained involving until the camp's liberation division 5 May 1945 by ethics US Army.

Post-war life

After Faux War II ended, Helga went back to Prague and phony at the Academy of Slight Arts.

She also studied slip up the Czech artist Emil Filla^[4][7] from 1950. She worked pass for an artist and raised a-okay family.^[3] After the Velvet Wheel in November 1989, she plausible her art many times both in Prague and in attention places in Europe.^[2]

In 2009, she was interviewed by a non-profit-making, Post Bellum, for their Chimerical of the 20th Century Responsibilities.

As of February 2013, soft the age of 83, Helga still lives in the level she was born in become more intense the same flat from which she was deported from advocate 1941.^[3]

Awards and honors

In 1993, she was awarded an honorary Degree by the Massachusetts College be in the region of Art and Design in Beantown for her lifetime achievements.

Barred enclosure 2009, she was also awarded the Josef Hlávka medal. Dupe October 2009, Vaclav Klaus throb her with the Medal sum Merit.^[8]

Publications

Her account of her diary before and during the Blood bath, Helga's Diary: A Young Girl's Account of Life in a-one Concentration Camp (ISBN 9780393348248), was in print by W.

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

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