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    <body><![CDATA[This book hurt to read.  In part because Berr's writing - even in translation (tho' not entirely, since apparently  much of the journal was written in English, in which she was fluent) - is beautiful and lucid.  But even more because of the sickening and inescapable knowledge which haunts the reader...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38083214">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[My niece, an editor for Weinsten books has recommended this one, a journal kept by a Jewish college student in Paris during the German occupation in WW 2.  Heartbreaking.  I am stunned anew by the evil of the third Reich and the complicity of the occupied countries in facilitating the final solution...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37828988">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It has taken me forever to read this book because it is so heart-wrenching.  The Diary of Ann Frank was the this story of a young girl.  THIS is the story of a young woman living in Paris during the German Occupation.  As a 21-22 year old attending the Sorbonne who becomes more and more mature, Hele...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48034757">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[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 &quot;selfish magic&quot; 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 &quot;Horror, Horror, Horror...&quot;, a hideous and poignant echo of her English studies from &quot;The Heart of Darkness&quot;.  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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    <body><![CDATA[Reading the words of this Jewish graduate is <em>profound</em>. Not only does she question her faith (she doesn't believe her Jewishness is a 'race' issue and I have to agree), she questions those in power, she shares her humaneness on these pages. That is what is so touching. But as intelligent as she was, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73092145">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Not since <strong>The Diary of Anne Frank</strong> 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.<br/><br/>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, writing with verve and style about her everyday life in Paris &#8212; about her studies, her friends, her growing affection for the &#8220;boy with the grey eyes,&#8221; about the sun in the dewdrops, and about the effect of the growing restrictions imposed by France&#8217;s Nazi occupiers. Berr brought a keen literary sensibility to her writing, a talent that renders the story it relates all the more rich, all the more heartbreaking.  <br/><br/>The first day Berr has to wear the yellow star on her coat, she writes, &#8220;I held my head high and looked people so straight in the eye they turned away. But it&#8217;s hard.&#8221; More, many more, humiliations were to follow, which she records, now with a view to posterity. She wants the journal to go to her fiancé, who has enrolled with the Free French Forces, as she knows she may not live much longer. She was right. The final entry is dated February 15, 1944, and ends with the chilling words: &#8220;Horror! Horror! Horror!&#8221; Berr and her family were arrested three weeks later. She went &#8212; as was discovered later &#8212; 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.<br/><br/>The journal did eventually reach her fiancé, and for over fifty years it was kept private. In 2002, it was donated to the Memorial of the Shoah in Paris. Before it was first published in France in January 2008, translation rights had already been sold for twelve languages.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I hope everyone will consider reading this recently published translation from the journal of a young French woman in Paris in the early 1940s. Berr is one of four children of a well-educated prominent French family and considers herself more French than Jew. Berr's 2-year journal is difficult to re...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68801210">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Not since <strong>The Diary of Anne Frank</strong> 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.<br/><br/>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, writing with verve and style about her everyday life in Paris &#8212; about her studies, her friends, her growing affection for the &#8220;boy with the grey eyes,&#8221; about the sun in the dewdrops, and about the effect of the growing restrictions imposed by France&#8217;s Nazi occupiers. Berr brought a keen literary sensibility to her writing, a talent that renders the story it relates all the more rich, all the more heartbreaking.  <br/><br/>The first day Berr has to wear the yellow star on her coat, she writes, &#8220;I held my head high and looked people so straight in the eye they turned away. But it&#8217;s hard.&#8221; More, many more, humiliations were to follow, which she records, now with a view to posterity. She wants the journal to go to her fiancé, who has enrolled with the Free French Forces, as she knows she may not live much longer. She was right. The final entry is dated February 15, 1944, and ends with the chilling words: &#8220;Horror! Horror! Horror!&#8221; Berr and her family were arrested three weeks later. She went &#8212; as was discovered later &#8212; 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.<br/><br/>The journal did eventually reach her fiancé, and for over fifty years it was kept private. In 2002, it was donated to the Memorial of the Shoah in Paris. Before it was first published in France in January 2008, translation rights had already been sold for twelve languages.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[so interesting, but a bit difficult to really understand in the beginning because it is a journal...not much background info on people.  i enjoyed it because i love the district in paris that she lived in.  ]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Not since <strong>The Diary of Anne Frank</strong> 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.<br/><br/>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, writing with verve and style about her everyday life in Paris &#8212; about her studies, her friends, her growing affection for the &#8220;boy with the grey eyes,&#8221; about the sun in the dewdrops, and about the effect of the growing restrictions imposed by France&#8217;s Nazi occupiers. Berr brought a keen literary sensibility to her writing, a talent that renders the story it relates all the more rich, all the more heartbreaking.  <br/><br/>The first day Berr has to wear the yellow star on her coat, she writes, &#8220;I held my head high and looked people so straight in the eye they turned away. But it&#8217;s hard.&#8221; More, many more, humiliations were to follow, which she records, now with a view to posterity. She wants the journal to go to her fiancé, who has enrolled with the Free French Forces, as she knows she may not live much longer. She was right. The final entry is dated February 15, 1944, and ends with the chilling words: &#8220;Horror! Horror! Horror!&#8221; Berr and her family were arrested three weeks later. She went &#8212; as was discovered later &#8212; 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.<br/><br/>The journal did eventually reach her fiancé, and for over fifty years it was kept private. In 2002, it was donated to the Memorial of the Shoah in Paris. Before it was first published in France in January 2008, translation rights had already been sold for twelve languages.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book falls short of five stars not because of its author, but rather the editors who did not nearly footnote enough the large cast of characters and the backstories which are contained between its overs.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Absolutely phenomenal. Heartwrenching and inspiring. Check out my full review on Amazon.]]></body>
    
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