The Journal of Hlne Berr

DJ and boards show light shelf wear, small corner bump and light moisture mark on bottom front pastedown, DJ has transferred moisture mark same area, does not bleed through to front. ; A bright, solid book dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; 8.6 X 6.2 X 1.1 inches; 306 pages; "The joyful but ultimately heartbreaking journal of a young Jewish woman in occupied Paris, now being published for the first time, 63 years after her death in a Nazi concentration camp.On April 7, 1942, Hlne Berr, a 21-year-old Jewish student of English literature at the Sorbonne, took up her pen and started to keep a journal, writing with verve and style about her everyday life in Paris about her studies, her friends, her growing affection for the boy with the grey eyes, The final entry is dated February 15, 1944, and ends with the chilling words: Horror! Horror! Horror! Berr and her family were arrested three weeks later. She went as was discovered later on the death march from Auschwitz to Bergen-Belsen, where she died of typhus in April 1945, within a month of Anne Frank and just days before the liberation of the camp."

Product Info

ISBN: 0771013132

ISBN-13: 9780771013133

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart

Year: 2008

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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