While the Republic of Ireland was neutral during World War II, Northern Ireland became an important Allied sea and airbase.

Out of the 15,000 children aged under 16 who were imprisoned at Theresienstadt and then sent to Auschwitz, only 100 survived.Saint Patrick’s Day, or the Feast of Saint Patrick (Irish: Lá Fhéile Pádraig, “the Day of the Festival of Patrick”), is a cultural and religious celebration held on 17 March, the traditional death date of Saint Patrick ( c. AD 385–461), the foremost patron saint of Ireland. Ten days later, she was deported to Freiberg near Dresden.

Here the prisoners were sorted out by Josef Mengele himself: to the left, those who were going to the cremation ovens, to the right, those who were not going. There she continued to write about the squalid shacks, the merciless food rationing and executions, but also about the hope she was still keeping even in the worst conditions.Īt the age of 15 she moved, with her mother, at Auschwitz camp. In 1941, Helga and her parents were sent to the concentration camp in Theresienstadt.

As she was witnessing the horrors of the Nazis, Helga began to note down her experiences in a diary. Along with 45,000 other Jews in the city, Helga’s family faced the first wave of the Nazi invasion: her father was forbidden to work and children were forbidden to go to school. In 1938, Helga Weissová was a student in Prague. In an interview for Mediafax, painter Helga Weissová said, a month ago, that in 1945, when she was released from the Nazi camp, she did not believe that, 70 years after, there will be necessary to speak again on this subject and that “danger will again surround us”. Helga Weissová will talk about the current situation in the world, about how Jews are perceived at the moment and what are the measures to be taken so that discrimination and indifference no longer exist. Helga Hošková-Weissová, born in 1929, is a Czech artist of Hebrew origin, a Holocaust survivor. The story of a girl who survived the Holocaust” by Helga Weissová will be launched on February 26, at 18.30, at C?rture?ti bookshop in Bucharest.Īlongside the author, who will talk to readers on Skype, Elisabeta Lasconi – literary critic, Roman Prosa – Consul of the Czech Embassy in Bucharest, Mircea Dan Du? – translator, Magdalena M?rculescu – editorial director at the Editorial Trei Group will attend the event, Mediafax informs.

Jurnal (1938–1945) by Helga Weissová