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The remarkable diary of a young girl who survived the Holocaustappearing in English for the first time. In 1939, Helga Weiss was a young Jewish schoolgirl in Prague. Along with some 45,000 Jews living in the city, Helgas family endured the first wave of the Nazi invasion her father was denied work she was forbidden from attending regular school. As Helga witnessed the increasing Nazi brutality, she began documenting her experiences in a diary. In 1941, Helga and her parents were sent to the concentration camp of Terezn. There, Helga continued to write with astonishing insight about her daily life the squalid living quarters, the cruel rationing of food, and the executionsas well as the moments of joy and hope that persisted in even the worst conditions.