Helga Weiss narrowly escaped death at the hands of Nazi doctor Josef Mengele
(NEWSER) - Anne Frank was not the only teen to record her harrowing Holocaust account in a diary—or to have the chronicle of her ordeal published. Helga Weiss, now an artist in her 80s, kept her journal as a young girl, beginning in 1939. Her family's Prague apartment was taken by the Germans, and her family was transported to the Nazi-controlled ghetto of Terezín. There, reports the Guardian , she wrote how "thunderous steps, the roar of the ghetto guards, the banging of doors, and hysterical weeping always sound—and foretell—the same." More»
