Helga's diary

In 1939, Helga Weiss was a young Jewish schoolgirl in Prague and she and her family endured the beginning of the Nazi invasion. Her father was denied work and she could not attend regular school. As she witnessed the increasing Nazi brutality she began a diary. In 1942, Helga and her parents were sent to Terezin where she continued her diary. In 1944 the family was moved to Auschwitz. But before Helga left Terezin, her uncle, who worked in the Terezin records department, hid her diary and drawings in a brick wall. In one of the many miracles of Jewish Holocaust survivors, he was able to reclaim them for her after the war.