The Journal of H�l�ne Berr - Softcover

Berr, H�l�ne

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9781906694197: The Journal of H�l�ne Berr

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ISBN 10: 1906694192 ISBN 13: 9781906694197

Verlag: MacLehose Press, 2009

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Physical description; 306 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 20 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Introduction, by David Bellos. Maps: Helene Berr's Paris; The Latin Quarter in 1942. Journal: 1942; 1943; 1944. A Letter from Helene Berr to her Sister Denise. A Stolen Life, by Mariette Job. France and the Jews, by David Bellos. Glossaries: Acronyms and Special Terms; Books Quoted by Helene Berr; Streets and Places. Index of Personal Names. Summary; From April 1942 to March 1944, H�l�ne Berr, a recent graduate of the Sorbonne, kept a journal that is an intensely moving, intimate and harrowing text of astonishing literary maturity. Her last recorded words are 'Horror, horror, horror' - she and the rest of her Jewish family were sent to Auschwitz. Subjects; Berr, H�l�ne (1921-1945) - Diaries. Jewish women - France - Paris - Diaries. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - France - Paris - Personal narratives. Jewish women - France - Diaries. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - France - Personal narratives. Jews - France - Paris - Diaries. Jews - France - Diaries. Jews - France - Paris. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - France. France - History - German occupation, (1940-1945). Paris (France) - Biography. Paris (France) - History - (1940-1944). Biography & autobiography: historical, political & military ; The Holocaust ; Essays, journals, letters & other prose works. France. Second World War, (1939-1945). History / Europe / Germany. Genres; Autobiography. Illustrated.

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Searingly beautiful Holocaust diary. with a fluid and compelling combination of raw sensitivity, moral questioning and courageous pragmatism . a vital, spellbinding read' Laura Silverman, Daily Mail. (Daily Mail)

At once the diary of a young Jewish girl under the German Occupation of Paris, a work of exceptional literary quality, and a powerful historical document' Simone Veil, L'Express. (L'Express)

There are some books that are great, not because their writers were born for literary success, but because circumstances force upon them the writing of a truly great book. Such a one is H�l�ne Berr's Journal' Carmen Callil, Guardian. (Guardian)

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From April 1942 to March 1944, Helene Berr, a recent graduate of the Sorbonne, kept a journal that is both an intensely moving, intimate, harrowing, appalling document and a text of astonishing literary maturity. With her colleagues, she plays the violin and she seeks refuge from the everyday in what she calls the "selfish magic" of English literature and poetry. But this is Paris under the occupation and her family is Jewish. Eventually, there comes the time when all Jews are required to wear a yellow star. She tries to remain calm and rational, keeping to what routine she can: studying, reading, enjoying the beauty of Paris. Yet always there is fear for the future, and eventually, in March 1944, Helene and her family are arrested, taken to Drancy Transit Camp and soon sent to Auschwitz. She went - as is later discovered - on the death march to Bergen-Belsen and there she died in 1945, only five days before the liberation of the camp. The last words in the journal she had left behind in Paris were "Horror! Horror! Horror!", a hideous and poignant echo of her English studies. Helene Berr's story is almost too painful to read, foreshadowing horror as it does amidst an enviable appetite for life, for beauty, for literature, for all that lasts.

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