Helga Deen

Helga Deen ( born April 6, 1925 in Stettin, † July 16, 1943 in Sobibor extermination camp ) was a German Jewish woman who was murdered at age 18 by the Nazis. Their records published as a book.

Life

As a 18- year-old schoolgirl was taken on June 1, 1943 in the concentration camp at Hertogenbosch Vught, where she secretly held their thoughts, impressions and experiences in the camp for about a month. They described feelings of helplessness, despair, but also the longing for love of her youth Kees. She turned her records to Kees as " sweetheart " and wrote on exercise book pages. The last entry is dated 1 July 1943. On July 2, 1943 Deen was initially eventually deported to the Westerbork transit camp and to Sobibor, where they along with their parents Willy and Kate Deen Deen -Wolff and her brother Klaus Gottfried Albert Deen on 16 July. was murdered in extermination camps.

Your "Diary " was smuggled by some friends from the camp and later handed over to Kees. This kept it hidden all his life.

Discount

After the Dutch artist Kees van den Berg 's death, his son Conrad discovered in his father's studio an old brown ladies handbag with letters, postcards, and a gray-green exercise book with the inscription "Chemistry H. Deen ". This unassuming booklet contains the diary of his great childhood sweetheart - Helga Deen.

Your in October 2004 in Tilburg Regional Archives of the public presented records (21 pages), addressed to her lover, about life in the Dutch camp Vught were repeatedly compared with the diary of Anne Frank. Under the title "If my will dies, I die. Diary and letters "appeared in a Random House book about Helga Deen.

Work

• If my will dies, I die. , 2007.