Helène Berr was a student at the Sorbonne in the 1940s.  She was musical, well read and kept a journal.  One looks at her photograph and one sees exactly what one expects; regular features, not too much makeup, nicely cut hair.  All in all a typical young middle class Parisienne of the period.  But she was Jewish and, ultimately deported to Auschwitz and then Bergen-Belsen, where she was killed just days before British troops liberated the camp on 15th April 1945.

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