Friday, Aug. 26, 2016 – Sunday, Nov. 13, 2016
Hélène Berr’s official portrait, 1942 © Mémorial de la Shoah – Coll. Mariette Job
Holocaust Museum Houston is proud to present the temporary exhibition, “Hélène Berr, A Stolen Life,” an exhibit by the Mémorial de la Shoah (Paris, France).
From the personal journal written by Hélène Berr, the exhibit tells the story of a young Jewish French woman, whose promising future was brutally cut short by the Vichy Government's laws and the Nazi extermination plan. Studying English Literature at Sorbonne University, Hélène Berr was 21 years old when she began her journal. The narrative follows her steps through Paris under German Occupation, observing her daily experiences of the unbearable, oscillating between hope and despair, until her arrest and deportation to Auschwitz in 1944. She died in Bergen Belsen days before the liberation of the camp in 1945; exemplified by the last lines of her journal, “Horror! Horror! Horror!”.
About the Exhibition
With the support of photographs, archives, films, interactive animations and maps, the display depicts how the daily lives of Jews were impacted by antisemitism and violence and is divided into three parts: Hélène Berr, Vichy and the antisemitic laws, and the journal. A digitized version of the diary, to scroll through page by page, will also be on view.
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