El diario de Helga

In 1938, at the age of eight, Helga begins to write and illustrate her diary. The Nazi troops have just invaded Prague and the girl lives in seclusion at home, since the schools expel the Jewish students and her parents are denied the possibility of working. In 1941, her entire family is sent to the Terezín ghetto, where for three years the girl documents her daily life in her notebooks, with the hardest aspects and moments of her relative happiness. When she finds out that she is going to be deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp, she gives her uncle the pages of her diary and he hides them between the bricks of a wall. Of the fifteen thousand children who arrived in Terezín and ended up in Auschwitz, only one hundred survived the Holocaust. Helga was one of them. When the war ended and she was able to return to Prague, she had turned fifteen and in the most absolute poverty she decided to continue the story of the experiences suffered since her deportation. Reconstructed from the original notebooks and loose sheets that Helga wrote after the war, Helga's Diary collects the most intimate elements of a tragic time.