Il diario di Hélène Berr

Helene Berr’s journal begins in April 1942. She’s an incredibly gifted student studying English literature at the Sorbonne in Paris. Apparently much of her journal was written in English. She’s also a very gifted musician. Her family is Jewish, wealthy and long settled in France. For the first eight Leggi tutto

"...I have a duty to write because other people must know. Every hour of every day there is another painful realization that other folk do not know, do not even imagine, the suffering of other men, the evil that some of them inflict. And I am still trying to make the painful effort to tell the stor Leggi tutto

This is a remarkable book and at times rather unbearable. Helen was writing for herself, she had no future audience in mind when she began her journal in 1942. She talks abiout lunches, studies, music and her new boyfriend as, with her head rather buried in the sand, she carries on her priveliged mi Leggi tutto

Reading Helene Berr’s journal is, quite simply, a touching, personal, and unexpectedly eye-opening testimony about Paris during World War II. The journal was not meant to be read by a mass audience, per se, so it doesn’t read like a conventional memoir. There are incomplete passages, inexplicable re Leggi tutto

La lectura del diario de Hélène Berr es una experiencia de las que dejan huella y dejan el corazón encogido. Es imposible no sentirse conmovido y hechizado por esta joven estudiante, por lo que de su vida sabemos en los breves meses durante los que escribió en su diario, pero sobre todo por ese futu Leggi tutto

This book is a wonder and at the same time a poignant reminder of how many extraordinary people suffered an ignominious fate, when they were in fact GREAT human beings, writers, artists, or merely PEOPLE OF GOOD HEART. After having reread recently Etty Hillesum's books, I was absolutely taken by thi Leggi tutto

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 th Leggi tutto

Una tragedia y, todavía más fuerte, una tragedia elocuente. Este diario simplemente me rompió el corazón. Empieza súper suave y hasta medio fome, la vida cotidiana de una francesa cualquiera, llena al principio de nombres, datos, anotaciones, cosas específicas valiosas para el que escribe y soberanam Leggi tutto

I just finished The Journal of Helene Berr, and I have to say that everyone should read it. Like The Diary of Anne Frank, it is an unbelievably moving first-hand account of a Jewish girl's perspective on the war, occupation, and genocide. I cannot even begin to express how this book has made me feel. Leggi tutto