The Berr Holocaust Diary

Go here for a review of the new book, as yet in French, which is Helene Berr's holocaust diary which seems to be flying off the shelves.

It has been described as a publishing sensation. Helene Berr was a young French student murdered in a Nazi concentration camp. Her recently discovered
journal has now hit French bookstores -- and become an immediate bestseller. "I sense that a great dark path awaits me." The words were written over six decades ago by a young Jewish student named Helene Berr not long before she lost her life in a German concentration camp. But they are only just now coming to light.

And this:-

But slowly the dark realities of life for Jews in Nazi-occupied France impinge on her happiness. The pivotal moment comes when she wears a yellow star for the first time on June 8, 1942.

"I held my head high and looked people so straight in the eye they turned away," she wrote. "But it's hard."