Helga's Diary (Easton Press Signed Collector's Edition)

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WEISS, Helga (intro. Francine Prose; trans. Neil Bermel). Helga's Diary: A Young Girl's Account of Life in a Concentration Camp. Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2013. Octavo. Full burgundy leather. Spine with raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents. All edges gilt. Moiré silk endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. 248pp. 16 colour paintings and 12 photographs throughout. Signed Collector's Edition. Limited to 800 numbered copies. Signed by the author on the special numbered limitation page. Includes signed Certificate of Authenticity, edition card, and bookplate adhered to front endpaper. Originally published New York: W. W. Norton Company, 2013. Translated from the Czech. Helga Weiss (b. 1929) was eleven years old when Germany occupied Czechoslovakia in 1939, and she began keeping a diary almost immediately. She wrote in school exercise books, in pencil, recording what she saw around her with the particular combination of a child's directness and a precociously sharp observational intelligence. In December 1941, she and her parents were deported to Terezín — the concentration camp established within the walls of an old Habsburg garrison town in Bohemia — where they would remain for three years. Before her subsequent deportation to Auschwitz in 1944, her uncle bricked the diary into a wall to preserve it. The diary was published in Czech in 1995 and in English translation for the first time in 2013. The Daily Telegraph described it as "the most moving Holocaust diary publis

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