{"product_id":"helgas-diary-easton-press-signed-collectors-edition","title":"Helga's Diary (Easton Press Signed Collector's Edition)","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWEISS, Helga\u003c\/strong\u003e (intro. Francine Prose; trans. Neil Bermel). \u003cem\u003eHelga's Diary: A Young Girl's Account of Life in a Concentration Camp.\u003c\/em\u003e Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2013.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eOctavo. Full burgundy leather. Spine with raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents. All edges gilt. Moiré silk endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. 248pp. 16 colour paintings and 12 photographs throughout. \u003cstrong\u003eSigned Collector's Edition. Limited to 800 numbered copies. Signed by the author on the special numbered limitation page. Includes signed Certificate of Authenticity, edition card, and bookplate adhered to front endpaper.\u003c\/strong\u003e Originally published New York: W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company, 2013. Translated from the Czech.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eHelga Weiss (b. 1929) was eleven years old when Germany occupied Czechoslovakia in 1939, and she began keeping a diary almost immediately. She wrote in school exercise books, in pencil, recording what she saw around her with the particular combination of a child's directness and a precociously sharp observational intelligence. In December 1941, she and her parents were deported to Terezín — the concentration camp established within the walls of an old Habsburg garrison town in Bohemia — where they would remain for three years. Before her subsequent deportation to Auschwitz in 1944, her uncle bricked the diary into a wall to preserve it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe diary was published in Czech in 1995 and in English translation for the first time in 2013. The \u003cem\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/em\u003e described it as \"the most moving Holocaust diary published since Anne Frank.\" The comparison is apt in some respects and instructive in others: where Anne Frank wrote in hiding, with the knowledge that discovery meant death, Weiss wrote from within the camp itself, under conditions of deprivation and fear that the diary documents with an immediacy that is at times almost unbearable. The \u003cem\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e observed that the young Helga \"responds to hardship with indignation and defiance, maintaining a sharp sense of observation while trying to make sense of the upheaval and suffering she sees.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNear fine.\u003c\/strong\u003e Some very mild markings along fore-edge gilt; otherwise fine throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis book is currently not on display in store. If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: \u003ca href=\"mailto:rarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\" title=\"Harry Hartog Rare Book Department\"\u003erarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCatalogue Number: HH000498\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Helga Weiss","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49070292730099,"sku":"1110002990236","price":100.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/1_2113577b-fcb9-4e6c-9589-bdbc71ddcbf8.png?v=1779065865","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/helgas-diary-easton-press-signed-collectors-edition","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}