The Journal of Hélène Berr

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2008. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0771013132 . 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, 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 — 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." .