Helga Deen
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Helga Deen
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| Born | Helga Deen 6 April 1925 Stettin, Germany |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Sobibór extermination camp, Poland |
| Ethnicity | Jewish |
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She wrote a diary during her stay in Camp Vught, discovered in 2004
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Helga Deen (6 April 1925 – 16 July 1943) was the author of a diary, discovered in 2004, which describes her stay in a Dutch prison camp, Kamp Vught, where she was brought during World War II at the age of 18.
Deen was half-Dutch. Initially her father lived with his German GP wife in Germany, but moved back to the Netherlands as persecution increased. Her mother worked for a time as a doctor at a concentration camp at Vught. She was given leave to remain but chose to accompany her family to Sobibor, where she died.
After her last diary entry, in early July 1943, Helga Deen was deported to Sobibór extermination camp and murdered. She was 18 years old.[1][2]
Diary
Deen wrote the diary for her boyfriend, Kees van den Berg, who kept it hidden after the war. After his death his son presented the diary to archivists in Tilburg.
Posthumous
A memorial stone to Helga and her family has been placed by a member of the Dutch Sobibor Foundation on the pathway which used to lead to the gas chambers ('Road to Heaven').
See also
References
- ↑ "Shades of Anne Frank in Dutch prison camp diary." Sydney Morning Herald, 22 October 2004.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
External links
- Helga Deen at Virtual Jewish Community of Netherlands record
- Helga Deen, the Last Night, a 32-page graphic novel created by Dario Picciau and Roberto Malini
- Stichting sobibor.nl, click on 'gedenklaan' and 'links' to view the images
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