Hélène Berr A life confiscated

Hélène Berr was 21 years old in 1942. Parisian, a student at the Sorbonne, she kept her diary from April 1942 to February 1944. This text, of an exceptional literary quality, mixes the daily experience of the unbearable and the dreamed world of letters, alternating at every moment between hope and despair.

Arrested on March 8, 1944, she is deported to Auschwitz with her father and mother. She survives almost to the end of the ordeal, succumbing to exhaustion at Bergen-Belsen in April 1945, before the liberation of the camp.

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