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Journal (Hardcover)

by Helene Berr (Author), David Bellos (Translator)
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  • Hardcover: 300 pages
  • Publisher: Quercus Publishing Plc (23 Oct 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1847245749
  • ISBN-13: 978-1847245748
  • Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 15.8 x 3.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 174,201 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Thoughtfully, heartrendingly, completely, the book that Helen Berr wrote in the darkest days of the City of Light answers her own question - Mariette Job in the Scotsman. It is a beautiful but harrowing experience reading the words of Helene Berr - Her journal is a devastatingly powerful evocation of the pointlessness of war and one that will have a lasting effect on its readers - Wales on Sunday. Helene is a striking diarist - writes lucid, lovely prose - we are lucky that Helene chose to tell her own story - David Bellos interview, Times Online. ... A very moving account ... devastatingly sad - Oxford Times.


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From April 1942 to March 1944, Helene Berr, a recent graduate of the Sorbonne, kept a journal that is both an intensely moving, intimate, harrowing, appalling document and a text of astonishing literary maturity. With her colleagues, she plays the violin and she seeks refuge from the everyday in what she calls the "selfish magic" of English literature and poetry. But this is Paris under the occupation and her family is Jewish. Eventually, there comes the time when all Jews are required to wear a yellow star. She tries to remain calm and rational, keeping to what routine she can: studying, reading, enjoying the beauty of Paris.Yet always there is fear for the future, and eventually, in March 1944, Helene and her family are arrested, taken to Drancy Transit Camp and soon sent to Auschwitz. She went - as is later discovered - on the death march to Bergen-Belsen and there she died in 1945, only weeks before the liberation of the camp. The last words in the journal she had left behind in Paris were "Horror, Horror, Horror...", a hideous and poignant echo of her English studies from "The Heart of Darkness". Helene Berr's story is almost too painful to read, foreshadowing horror as it does amidst an enviable appetite for life, for beauty, for literature, for all that lasts.

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3.0 out of 5 stars the diary of an older more literary Anne Frank , 1 Feb 2009
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An extremely moving account of the experience of a young Jewish PhD student in occupied France. The first quarter of the diary is ordinary and quite boring but the reader is rewarded later by the portrayal of provincial family life which gradually slips into nightmare. The powerlessness of all concerned in the face of the Nazi holocaust makes terrifying reading. Readers with a literary background will enjoy the many references to classical literature.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Helene Berr , 30 Jan 2009
A very moving journal, especially pertinant as one knows the end result where the author does not. Well worth reading.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Loved the read, but not the outcome, 13 Oct 2009
By Caryl Metcalfe "Caryl" (Isle of Skye) - See all my reviews
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Found the English translation really excellent, though some of it had been written in English by Helene anyway. The book was an easy read from that angle, but not from knowing the final outcome. It was the first book I've read covering Paris during the war - highly recommend it.
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