Helga Hošková-Weissová (born 1929) is a Czech artist, and a Holocaust survivor.[1][2][3] She was from the Czech Jewish ghetto of Terezin, and was one of ten percent of children from there to survive the Holocaust, in part because she convinced Josef Mengele and the other guards that she was older and her mother was younger than they really were.[3] After she and her mother were taken to Auschwitz in 1944, Helga created a diary with images of her life.[2][3] She was later transferred from Auschwitz to a Flossenbürg labor camp where she escaped death a second time when she was forced to join a 16-day "death march" to the camp at Mauthausen.[4] She remained there until the end of the war. After World War II ended, Helga went to Prague, where she was born, and studied painting with the Czech artist Emil Filla.[1][2] Her Holocaust diary is slated to be published by Viking on June 7, 2012.[3][4]