The Journal of Helene Berr Education Paralyzed from polio and raised

Paralyzed from polio and raised by her Holocaust-surviving parents in New York City

Vogl’s thrillingly moving story

In the frantic spring and summer of 1939

it is the autobiographical account of an adolescent boy and his father in Auschwitz

including interviews with the last surviving members

The Journal of Helene Berr Education Paralyzed from polio and raisedBy 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