"Hélène Berr was written by a 21-year-old who witnessed, and suffered from, Nazi persecution, and who wrote down her experiences so that her fiance, who had escaped to England, would know what happened to her. A literate, educated young woman, she recorded her day-to-day life for over two years, at first 'barely aware of her Jewish identity,' and then more and more a witness to cruelty. The inevitable sad denoument occurs. Berr died in the Belsen concentration camp a few days before its liberation."
Via The French Journal
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