Hélène Berr, at the Stolen Life Exposition in Reno, Nevada, USA
Wednesday 01 March 2017December 30 April 2017
Inauguration 9 March 2017 from 18h to 20h / Workshop 11 March 2017 from 10h to 16h30
Jean and Hélène in Aubergenville
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, five days before the camp’s liberation.
The exhibition, going beyond the strict framework of the newspaper and the personality of Hélène Berr, extends to the context of the Occupation and the persecution of the Jews in France. It offers the opportunity to discover the original manuscript of this journal published in 2008, as well as many family archives deposited at the Shoah Memorial.
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