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The Journal of Hélène Berr
by Berr, Helene
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0771013132
- ISBN 13
- 9780771013133
- Seller
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Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
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." .
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- Bookseller
- Ainsworth Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20047
- Title
- The Journal of Hélène Berr
- Author
- Berr, Helene
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0771013132
- ISBN 13
- 9780771013133
- Publisher
- McClelland & Stewart
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 2008
- Keywords
- 0771013132, Holocaust, anne frank, auschwitz
- Bookseller catalogs
- Militaria; Militaria / Holocaust;
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About the Seller
Ainsworth Books
Biblio member since 2003
Chilliwack, British Columbia
About Ainsworth Books
Ainsworth Books was for many years a bricks and mortar store in Vancouver, BC. When we acquired the store, we moved to a location in Delta. After three years we moved the stock home and started operation as an online, by appointment only operation. I have worked with books my whole adult life and enjoy giving recommendations.
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