Hélène Berr A life confiscated

Hélène Berr was 21 years old in 1942. Parisian, a student at the Sorbonne, she kept her diary daily from April 1942 to February 1944. This text, of 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 8 March 1944, she is deported to Auschwitz with her father and mother. She almost survived the ordeal, succumbing to exhaustion at Bergen-Belsen in April 1945, before the camp was liberated.

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