Journal
Subtitle: 1942-1944
By: Hélène Berr ; suivi de Hélène Berr, une vie confisquée, par Mariette Job ; préface de Patrick Modiano.
Publisher: Tallandier
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9782847345001; 9781602860643
Subjects: Berr, Hélène, -- 1921-1945 -- Diaries; Jews -- France -- Paris -- Diaries; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- France -- Paris -- Personal narratives; Paris (France) -- Biography
Genres: Diaries.; Personal narratives.; Biography.
Description: The joyful but ultimately heartbreaking journal of a young Jewish woman in occupied Paris, now published for the first time, 63 years after her death. In 1942, Hélène Berr, a 21-year-old Jewish student at the Sorbonne, started to keep a journal, writing with verve and style about her everyday life in Paris--about her studies, her friends, her growing affection for the "boy with the grey eyes," about the sun in the dewdrops, and about the effect of the growing restrictions imposed by France's Nazi occupiers. Humiliations were to follow, which she records, now with a view to posterity. She wants the journal to go to her fiancé, who has enrolled with the Free French Forces, as she knows she may not live much longer. She was right. The final entry is dated February 15, 1944, and we now know she died in Bergen-Belsen in April 1945, within a month of Anne Frank and just days before the liberation of the camp.--From publisher description.