Hélène Berr, a young brilliant Jewish female student of literature at the Sorbonne University, lives in Paris during the Nazi occupation. She keeps a diary from 1942 till 1944, wherein she describes the mounting horrors of the persecution of the Jews. In 1944 she is arrested with her parents and sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau. She dies in Bergen-Belsen, a few days before the liberation of that concentration camp. Her secret diary was kept in the family and finally published in 2008. |
||
Title: | Hélène Berr, une jeune fille dans Paris occupé | |
Air Date: | December 10, 2013 | |
Runtime: | 50 min | |
Draco1969 : First discovered this amazing show when I was in Iraq. We had a bazaar on our post and th...