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Available in DVD and VOD – This documentary is based on the diary written by Hélène Berr, a young French woman Jewish, whose promising future was brutally cut short by the Vichy Government’s laws and the extermination plan imagined by the Nazis. Studying English Literature at the Sorbonne University, Helene Berr was 21 years old when she started her journal. We follow her steps through Paris under the German occupation, perceiving the daily experience of the unbearable, oscillating between hope and despair, until her arrest and deportation to Auschwitz in 1944.
This exceptional testimony remained a family treasure for 60 years, before being published in 2008. Jérôme Prieur’s film draws on excerpts from the manuscript, archives, and sober reconstitutions. This film has received the support of the Foundation for the Remembrance of the Holocaust.
This exhibition, curated by Karen Taieb and Sophie Nagiscarde, was designed, created, and circulated by Mémorial de la Shoah (Paris, France) and made possible through the generous support of SNCF.
