Hélène Berr and Anne Frank
The diary of the Anne Frank of France. Hélène Berr was 21 when she began her diary in 1942.
“To think that every person arrested yesterday, today, this very minute, is probably destined to suffer this terrible fate. To think that it is not over yet, that it continues with diabolical regularity.
To think that if I am arrested this evening (which I have been expecting for ages now), in a week’s time I’ll be in Upper Silesia, maybe dead, and my whole life, with the infinity I sense within me, will be snuffed out…”
“Hélène survived the death march from Auschwitz to Bergen-Belsen. Sick with typhus, she was beaten to death because she was too weak to get up from her bunk for reveille.”
Anne and Hélène died a month apart at Bergen-Belsen. ‘It is raining Death on earth,” she wrote.
