Deník 1938–1945 - Příběh dívky, která přežila holocaust – Weissová Helga (2012)

The very first edition of the authentic diary of a girl from a Jewish family in Prague who survived the Holocaust is published with a foreword by Zdeněk Mahler and an afterword by Ivan Klíma. Helga Weiss's diary is an authentic testimony of a girl from a Jewish family in Prague who endured the horrors of World War II. Like Anne Frank's diary, it is a work of international significance that will become part of humanity's memory. In 1938, when Helga began writing her diary, she was nine years old. Together with her parents, she experienced the first injustices that Jews faced in the Protectorate and helplessly watched the gradual deportations of her friends, classmates, and relatives. In 1941, the Weiss family was sent to Terezín, where they lived together until her father's deportation to Auschwitz in 1944. In tragic ignorance, Helga and her mother decided to follow him there. The school notebook in which Helga recorded the terrifying developments of events and her feelings over the years was hidden by her uncle in one of the walls of Terezín. Helga's father was murdered in Auschwitz, but miraculously, both Helga and her mother survived their time in Auschwitz, Freiberg, and Mauthausen, as well as the arduous journey back home to Prague. Helga is fifteen and a half when she writes about her experiences from the departure from...