Journal - Helene Berr

Journal is a first person account of a young Jewish girl's experiences living under German rule in Occupied France during the 1940's. It is the direct translation of a series of diaries that Helene Berr was able to smuggle out to safety in installments to be kept by her fiancee who had earlier escaped to join the Free French. It is at times very moving and poignant and often very emotional as it tells the story of what it was like to live in a very different and scary time; the kind of era few of us will thankfully ever know... The diaries start right from the early days of German occupation when Jewish people are required by law to wear the yellow star that ...  Read the complete review