Author: BERR, HÉLÈNE (1921-1945). BELLOS, DAVID
Title: Journal / Hélène Berr ; translated from the French by David Bellos ; with an introduction and an essay by David Bellos ; and an afterword by Mariette Job
Description: London : MacLehose 2008. First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered.Physical description; 306 p. : ill. maps. ports. ; 20 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Introduction. by David Bellos. Maps: Helene Berr's Paris; The Latin Quarter in 1942. Journal: 1942; 1943; 1944. A Letter from Helene Berr to her Sister Denise. A Stolen Life. by Mariette Job. France and the Jews. by David Bellos. Glossaries: Acronyms and Special Terms; Books Quoted by Helene Berr; Streets and Places. Index of Personal Names. Summary; From April 1942 to March 1944. Hélène Berr. a recent graduate of the Sorbonne. kept a journal that is an intensely moving. intimate and harrowing text of astonishing literary maturity. Her last recorded words are 'Horror. horror. horror' - she and the rest of her Jewish family were sent to Auschwitz. Subjects; Berr. Hélène (1921-1945) — Diaries. Jewish women — France — Paris — Diaries. Holocaust. Jewish (1939-1945) — France — Paris — Personal narratives. Jewish women — France — Diaries. Holocaust. Jewish (1939-1945) — France — Personal narratives. Jews — France — Paris — Diaries. Jews — France — Diaries. Jews — France — Paris. Holocaust. Jewish (1939-1945) — France. France — History — German occupation. (1940-1945). Paris (France) — Biography. Paris (France) — History — (1940-1944). Biography & autobiography: historical. political & military ; The Holocaust ; Essays. journals. letters & other prose works. France. Second World War. (1939-1945). History / Europe / Germany. Genres; Autobiography. Illustrated. Weight in Kg appr.:

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