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Guardian: The schoolgirl who survived the Holocaust by fooling the Nazis
[The Guardian] - On an Auschwitz station platform in 1944, Helga Weiss and her mother fooled one of the most reviled men in modern history, Josef Mengele, and managed to save their lives. Not long into her teens, Weiss lied about her age, claiming she was old enough to
FBF Day 3: rights round-up
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[The Bookseller] - Penguin's Helga's Diary, the account written by Helga Weiss when she was a young girl during her internment in two concentration camps over the course of the Second World War, has now sold, on the strength of a 28-page sample translation, in Finland to
Viking acquires war camp diary
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[The Bookseller] - Viking publishing director Venetia Butterfield bought world rights directly from Helga Weiss after flying to her home—the same flat she was born in—in the Czech capital with commissioning editor Will Hammond to agree the contract.
Spiegel.de: Nur eine Abschiedshymne - DER SPIEGEL
Ein hochgewachsenes neunzehnjähriges Mädchen mit langer blonder Pferdemähne wird am 21. Juni in Genua an Bord des italienischen Schiffes »Andrea Doria« gehen....
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