The diary that has become a publishing sensation around the world—an important literary contribution to the history of the Holocaust by a gifted young writer who would become a victim herself.

Hélène Berr was a student of English Literature at the Sorbonne in Paris. She was deported to Auschwitz in 1944 with her mother and father, and she died in Bergen-Belsen in April 1945.

Translator Bio: David Bellos was the first ever winner of the Man Booker International Translator’s prize for his translations of the distinguished Albanian writer, Ismail Kadare. He is the translator of Fred Vargas and Georges Perec, among others, and he has also written a number of award-winning literary biographies. He is currently the professor of French and Comparative Literature at Princeton University.