Journal: 1942-1944
by Berr, Hélène
"It is a moving portrayal of how a young woman's carefree life in Paris is slowly shattered as she becomes increasingly certain of her eventual terrible fate ... Perhaps inevitably, Berr has already been described as France's Anne Frank. But although the two young women both died of typhus only a month apart in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945, their diaries are very different. While much of the Anne Frank journal deals with life in hiding in Amsterdam, Helen Berr's account describes he…
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- Full title :Journal : 1942-1944 / Hélène Berr ; suivi de Hélène Berr, une vie confisquée, par Mariette Job ; préface de Patrick Modiano.
Summary
"It is a moving portrayal of how a young woman's carefree life in Paris is slowly shattered as she becomes increasingly certain of her eventual terrible fate ... Perhaps inevitably, Berr has already been described as France's Anne Frank. But although the two young women both died of typhus only a month apart in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945, their diaries are very different. While much of the Anne Frank journal deals with life in hiding in Amsterdam, Helen Berr's account describes her experiences of everyday life in Paris under the German occupation."--from "Spiegel Online" description.
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- Publication Date:©2008.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Tallandier
- Place of Publication:Paris
- Language:fre
- Publication Date:©2008.
The Physical Object
- Description:300 pages : : illustrations ; : 23 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9782847345001, 2847345000
- oclc:ocn190965880
- LC Classification:D811
- Dewey Decimal:843
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