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Hélène Berr
Hélène Berr (27 March 1921 – 10 April 1945) was a French Jewish woman, who documented her life in a diary during the time of Nazi occupation of France. In France she is considered to be a "French Anne Frank". She died from typhus during an epidemic of the disease in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp that also killed Anne Frank and her sister Margot. Life Hélène Berr was born in 1921 in Paris, France, to a French-Jewish family. On 10 May 1940, Nazi Germany invaded France, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg. All four countries surrendered to Nazi Germany. On 23 June, and the German occupation of France began. Persecution of the Jews began shortly after the start of the occupation. The Nazis made wearing the yellow "Star of David" badge mandatory for the Jews. In March 1942, the Nazis began deporting Jews to concentration camps. As the persecution and deportation of the Jews increased in 1943, Hélène and her family no longer felt safe in their apartment at 5 Eli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris
Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, fourth-most populous city in the European Union and the List of cities proper by population density, 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2022. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of the world's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, culture, Fashion capital, fashion, and gastronomy. Because of its leading role in the French art, arts and Science and technology in France, sciences and its early adoption of extensive street lighting, Paris became known as the City of Light in the 19th century. The City of Paris is the centre of the Île-de-France region, or Paris Region, with an official estimated population of 12,271,794 inhabitants in January 2023, or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Diary Of A Young Girl
''The Diary of a Young Girl'', commonly referred to as ''The Diary of Anne Frank'', is a book of the writings from the Dutch language, Dutch-language diary kept by Anne Frank while she was in hiding for two years with her family during the Netherlands in World War II, Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. The family was apprehended in 1944, and Anne Frank died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945. Anne's diaries were retrieved by Miep Gies and Bep Voskuijl. Miep gave them to Anne's father, Otto Frank, the family's only survivor, just after the Second World War was over. The diary has since been published in more than 70 languages. It was first published under the title (; ''The Annex: Diary Notes 14 June 1942 – 1 August 1944'') by in Amsterdam in 1947. The diary received widespread critical and popular attention on the appearance of its English language translation, ''Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl'' by Doubleday & Company (United States) and Vallen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helga Deen
Helga Deen (6 April 1925 – 16 July 1943) was a Jewish diarist whose diary was discovered in 2004, which describes her stay in a Dutch prison camp, '' Kamp Vught'', where she was brought during World War II at the age of 18. Biography Deen was half-Dutch. Initially her father lived with his German GP wife in Germany, but moved back to the Netherlands as persecution increased. Her mother worked for a time as a doctor at a concentration camp at Vught. She was given leave to remain but chose to accompany her family to Sobibor, where she became one of the millions who was murdered in the Nazis' gas chambers. After her last diary entry, in early July 1943, Helga Deen was deported to Sobibór extermination camp and murdered in the gas chambers shortly after she arrived in the camp. She was 18 years old. Diary Upon her arrival at Camp Vught in April 1943, she started writing in her diary, a school notebook. Deen wrote the diary for her boyfriend, Kees van den Berg, who kept it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hana's Suitcase
Hana "Hanička" Brady (born Hana Bradyová; 16 May 1931 – 23 October 1944) was a Czechoslovak Jewish girl murdered in the gas chambers at German concentration camp at Auschwitz, located in the occupied territory of Poland, during the Holocaust. She is the subject of the 2002 non-fiction children's book ''Hana's Suitcase'', written by Karen Levine.''Hana's Suitcase'': Holocaust Remembrance Series for Young Readers ; New edition with foreword by Nobel Peace Prize winner . Second Story Press (product page). Biography Hana Brady was born on 16 May 1931 in |
List Of Posthumous Publications Of Holocaust Victims
This is a list of Holocaust victims whose writings were published posthumously. Published in English or translated into English *Hinde Bergner (1870–1942): ''On Long Winter Nights: Memoirs of a Jewish Family in a Galician Township, 1870–1900'' *Hélène Berr (1921–1945): ''The Journal of Hélène Berr'' * Miriam Chaszczewacki (1924–1942): ''Diary'' *Abraham Cytryn (1927–1944): ''Youth Writing Behind the Walls: Notebooks From the Lodz Ghetto'' * Adam Czerniaków (1880–1942): ''The Warsaw Diary of Adam Czerniakow: Prelude to Doom'' * Julius Feldman (1923–1943): ''The Krakow Diary of Julius Feldman'' * Sarah Fishkin (1924–1942): ''Heaven and Earth: the Diary of Sarah Fishkin'' * Moshe Flinker (1926–1944): ''Young Moshe’s Diary: The Spiritual Torment of a Jewish Boy in Nazi Europe'' *Anne Frank (1929–1945): ''The Diary of a Young Girl'' *Petr Ginz (1928–1944): ''The Diary of Petr Ginz'' * Éva Heyman (1931–1944): ''The Diary of Éva Heyman'' * Etty Hillesu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Diarists
This is an international list of diarists who have Wikipedia pages and whose journals have been published. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z Diaries of disputed authenticity *The Black Diaries purportedly written by Roger Casement Roger David Casement (; 1 September 1864 – 3 August 1916), known as Sir Roger Casement, CMG, between 1911 and 1916, was a diplomat and Irish nationalist executed by the United Kingdom for treason during World War I. He worked for the Britis ... and detailing his alleged homosexual activities, are believed by some to be a forgery perpetrated by the British government. See also * List of Australian diarists of World War I * List of dream diaries * List of fictional diaries * * List of longest diaries References {{DEFAULTSORT:Diarists * Lists of writers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Holocaust Diarists
Diarists who wrote diaries concerning the Holocaust (1941-1945). English translations of some of these diaries are commercially available, for example Anne Frank's, Eva Heyman's, Janusz Korczak's. * Janina Altman - a Jewish diarist in the Lwow Ghetto. Survived the Shoah and war. * Nonna Bannister (19272004) - a Russian Jewish diarist who wrote diaries while working as a Ostarbeiter in Germany, along with her mother, Anna. * Mary Berg * Hélène Berr– a French diarist * Eliszewa Binder * Willy Cohn * Miriam Chaszczewacki– a Polish diarist killed in the Radomsko ghetto * Adam Czerniaków * Arnold Daghani * Helga Deen– wrote a diary in Herzogenbusch concentration camp (Camp Vught) * Anne Frank– author of The Diary of a Young Girl * Petr Ginz * Zalman Gradowski * Eva Heyman - a 13-year-old girl who kept a diary in Nagyvárad (now called Oradea), a Hungarian part of Romania, before murdered in Aushwitz * Etty Hillesum– Dutch Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atlanta, Georgia
Atlanta ( ) is the List of capitals in the United States, capital and List of municipalities in Georgia (U.S. state), most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia. It is the county seat, seat of Fulton County, Georgia, Fulton County and extends into neighboring DeKalb County, Georgia, DeKalb County. With a population of 520,070 (2024 estimate) living within the city limits, Atlanta is the eighth most populous city in the Southeastern United States, Southeast and List of United States cities by population, 36th most populous city in the United States according to the 2020 United States census, 2020 U.S. census. Atlanta is classified as a Globalization and World Cities Research Network#Beta +, Beta + global city and is the principal city of the much larger Atlanta metropolitan area, the core of which includes Cobb County, Georgia, Cobb, Clayton County, Georgia, Clayton and Gwinnett County, Georgia, Gwinnett counties, in addition to Fulton and DeKalb. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irène Némirovsky
Irène Némirovsky (; born Irina Lvovna Nemirovskaya; 11 February 1903 – 17 August 1942) was a novelist of Ukrainian Jewish origin who was born in Kiev, then in the Russian Empire. She lived more than half her life in France and wrote in French, but was denied French nationality. Arrested as a Jew under the racial lawswhich did not take into account her conversion to Roman Catholicismshe died in Auschwitz at the age of 39. Némirovsky is best known for the posthumously published '' Suite française''. Life and career Irina Lvovna Nemirovskaya was born in 1903 in Kiev, then Russian Empire, the daughter of a wealthy banker, Lev (later Léon) Borisovich Nemirovsky. Her volatile and unhappy relationship with her mother Fanni Yonovna Margolis Nemirovskya became the heart of many of her novels. Her family fled the Russian Empire at the start of the Russian Revolution in 1917, spent 1918 in Finland, and then settled in Paris, where Némirovsky attended the Sorbonne and began writ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
