{"product_id":"the-journal-of-helene-berr-a-young-jewish-womans-life-in-occupied-paris-paperback","title":"The Journal of Hélène Berr: A Young Jewish Woman's Life in Occupied Paris - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHelene Berr\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"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of a young Jewish girl under the German Occupation of Paris, a work of exceptional literary quality, and a powerful historical document\" SIMONE WEIL\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom April 1942 to March 1944, Hélène Berr, a recent graduate of the Sorbonne, kept a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. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"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 Hélène Berr's \u003ci\u003eJournal\" \u003c\/i\u003eCARMEN CALLIL \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEventually, 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, Hélène 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHélène 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eTranslated from the French by David Bellos\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eHelene Berr was a student of English Literature at the Sorbonne in Paris. She was deported to Auschwitz in 1944 with her mother and father, and she died in Bergen-Belsen in April 1945, just a few weeks before the liberation of the camp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 7.7 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 14, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47508534526130,"sku":"9781906694197","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/YDCMY3K_mz9781906694197.webp?v=1779609567","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/the-journal-of-helene-berr-a-young-jewish-womans-life-in-occupied-paris-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}