The Journal of Helene Berr Education compelling portrait of France under

compelling portrait of France under occupation and reveals the taboos and silence that surround this painful episode

Vogl’s thrillingly moving story

By Marvell Ginsburg (Author) and Martin Lemelman (Illustrator)

including interviews with the last surviving members

In the frantic spring and summer of 1939

The Journal of Helene Berr Education compelling portrait of France underBy Helene Berr Not since The Diary of Anne Frank 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. On April 7, 1942, Hlne 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