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| Original Title: | Journal |
| ISBN: | 0771013132 (ISBN13: 9780771013133) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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 | : | Special 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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Ratings: 4.06 From 1277 Users | 177 ReviewsJudgment Containing Books The Journal of Hélène Berr
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 ofThis journal will haunt me.I have for years avoided reading anything about WWII in Europe. I'm glad I waited until I was a bit more aware and receptive, even though that's not why it took me so long to go there.Helene Berr is, for such a young age, astonishingly insightful and brave. She writes about her impending doom with a clear mind and her words echo eerily familiar pains I've felt in my own country, though obviously not as harshly..."The glorification of violence, pride, sentimentality,
In 2002 Helene Berrs niece Mariette Job donated Helenes journal to The Archives of the Holocaust Memorial in Paris. It was published in France in 2008. David Bellos of Princeton University translated the journal into English for American publication. Helene Berrs journal is an account of living in profound fear, day by day, in German occupied Paris during the Second World War. The journal covers two years recording what happened to the Jews under the Vichy government. Berrs father was a WWI
This is the published journal of Helne Berr who was a Jewish girl in France during WWII. In the begining she is an ordinary young woman with ordinary problems wondering which young man to choose. As time goes on and times become increasingly horrifying under the Nazi regime you see her world through her eyes. The horrors and tragedies are heartbreaking. Its unreal the evil that man can inflict upon man. Helene is heroic in her efforts to save orphaned children, children that have been made
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 don't read a lot of journals, and this isn't typically the sort of thing I would pick up on my own. (This book is assigned reading for my Holocaust course.) But I am glad I read this. Helene Berr provides a glimpse at what life was like for the Jewish people of Paris in the 1940s, mixing in elements of her day-to-day life alongside the horrors of Nazi-occupied Paris. Though at some points devastating, Berr's writing is beautiful and her words, sadly, still resonate today, particularly in terms
"It makes me happy to think that if I am taken, Andree will have kept these pages, which are a piece of me, the most precious part, because no other material thing matters to me anymore; what must be rescued is the soul and the memory it contains."Helene Berr was an intelligent, caring, and highly talented young woman living in Paris during WWII. She graduated from the Sorbonne with a degree in English Language and literature and would have earned further degrees and distinctions if not for
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