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Helga Weiss, Holocaust survivor: "The situation in Auschwitz was so terrible that it couldn't be called life, it was just horror and death"

Helga Weiss wrote one of the most moving diaries of the Holocaust during her four years of internment in the Nazi death camps.

"I hope my readers appreciate how precious life and liberty are," she says now.

Helga Weiss, in front of the Prague Jubilee Synagogue.Alamy