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  • The Journal of Helene Berr

    by Helene Berr ...
    Translated by David Bellos ...
    Not since The Diary of Anne Frank has there been such a book as this: 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, Hélène Berr, a 21-year-old Jewish student of English literature at the Sorbonne, took up her pen and started to keep a journal, ... Read more

    Was $11.99 CAD Now $7.99 CAD

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    The Journal of Hélène Berr

    A Young Jewish Woman’s Life in Occupied Paris

    by Hélène Berr ...
    Narrated by Guila Clara Kessous ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 9 min

    From April 1942 to March 1944, Hélène 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 ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

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