Hélène Berr

Hélène Berr (27 March 1921 – 10 April 1945) was a French woman of Jewish ancestry and faith, who documented her life in a diary during the time of Nazi occupation of France. In France she is considered to be a "French Anne Frank". She died from typhus during an epidemic of the disease in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp that also killed Anne Frank and her sister Margot.

Life

Hélène Berr was born in 1921 in Paris, France, to a French-Jewish family.

On 10 May 1940,

Diary

Hélène kept her diary from 7 April 1942, until 15 February 1944.^[1]

Publication

In the concentration camps, Hélène met some of her friends and told them that she wanted to publish her diary after the war ended. Hélène's boyfriend, Morawiecki, who survived the war, became a diplomat. In November 1992, Hélène Berr's niece, Mariette Job, decided to track down Morawiecki with a view to publishing the diary. He gave the journal that consists of 262 single pages to Job in April 1994.^{[clarification needed]} The diary has been stored at Paris' Mémorial de la Shoah (Holocaust Memorial Museum) since 2002.^{[citation needed]}

The book was published in France in January 2008. The

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