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Original Title:	Journal
ISBN:	0771013132 (ISBN13: 9780771013133)
Edition Language:	English

The Journal of Hélène Berr

Hélène Berr

Hardcover | Pages: 320 pages

Rating: 4.06 | 1277 Users | 177 Reviews

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Title	:	The Journal of Hélène Berr
Author	:	Hélène Berr
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 320 pages
Published	:	November 11th 2008 by McClelland & Stewart (first published 2008)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. History. World War II. Holocaust. Biography. Autobiography. Memoir. War. Cultural. France

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Not since The Diary of Anne Frank has there been such a book as this: The joyful but ultimately heartbreaking journal of a young Jewish woman in occupied Paris, now being published for the first time, 63 years after her death in a Nazi concentration camp.

On April 7, 1942, Hélène Berr, a 21-year-old Jewish student of English literature at the Sorbonne, took up her pen and 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. Berr brought a keen literary sensibility to her writing, a talent that renders the story it relates all the more rich, all the more heartbreaking.

The first day Berr has to wear the yellow star on her coat, she writes, “I held my head high and looked people so straight in the eye they turned away. But it’s hard.” More, many more, 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 ends with the chilling words: “Horror! Horror! Horror!” Berr and her family were arrested three weeks later. She went — as was discovered later — on the death march from Auschwitz to Bergen-Belsen, where she died of typhus in April 1945, within a month of Anne Frank and just days before the liberation of the camp.

The journal did eventually reach her fiancé, and for over fifty years it was kept private. In 2002, it was donated to the Memorial of the Shoah in Paris. Before it was first published in France in January 2008, translation rights had already been sold for twelve languages.

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Helene Berr has been compared to Anne Frank, and the similarities are indeed striking - both were the cherished and gifted daughters of upper-middle class families, fully assimilated into their respective societies and not particularly religious. Both wrote diaries between 1942-1944, would be deported to Auschwitz and then later to Bergen-Belsen, where they would die within weeks of each other, shortly before the British liberated the camp.But Berr's journal is a completely different document,

Helene Berrs journal begins in April 1942. Shes an incredibly gifted student studying English literature at the Sorbonne in Paris. Apparently much of her journal was written in English. Shes also a very gifted musician. Her family is Jewish, wealthy and long settled in France. For the first eighty pages theres barely a mention of the war or of the Nazis occupying her country. Helene is caught up in the excitements of her student life. She had a boyfriend who has left France to fight for the Free

"...I have a duty to write because other people must know. Every hour of every day there is another painful realization that other folk do not know, do not even imagine, the suffering of other men, the evil that some of them inflict. And I am still trying to make the painful effort to tell the story.Hélène Berr writes these words on October 10, 1943, a year and a half after the opening entry of The Journal of Hélène Berr. This entry marks a profound change in the emotional and intellectual life

My niece, an editor for Weinsten books has recommended this one, a journal kept by a Jewish college student in Paris during the German occupation in WW 2. Heartbreaking. I am stunned anew by the evil of the third Reich and the complicity of the occupied countries in facilitating the final solution. When the journal begins there is still some normality but as it continues the terror and the evil of the germans and their collaborators become overwhelming and pervasive. The final solution was so

Reading Helene Berrs journal is, quite simply, a touching, personal, and unexpectedly eye-opening testimony about Paris during World War II. The journal was not meant to be read by a mass audience, per se, so it doesnt read like a conventional memoir. There are incomplete passages, inexplicable references, and, quite often, page after page of a young woman being well, a young woman. What is so amazing about this book, though, is (1) to get a first hand narrative of daily life in Paris under the

June 1942 Up to that point the future had remained undecipherable. But it had unfolded, and we knew what lay in store....Just twelve days went by, and another piece of the future lost its aura of mystery and impenetrability, and turned out to be sad and squalid. p73It was not the best time to be young and in love, especially in Paris after the arrival of the Germans. In 1942 Helene Berr was still a brilliant student of literature and philosophy at the Sorbonne with a large circle of friends

This book hurt to read. In part because Berr's writing - even in translation (tho' not entirely, since apparently much of the journal was written in English, in which she was fluent) - is beautiful and lucid. But even more because of the sickening and inescapable knowledge which haunts the reader throughout the duration of this book, of what was to come, and what would ultimately befall her. The book itself is not long, but the sense of awful waiting and knowing seemed to slow the process of