The Journal of Helene Berr Education known as 'Mahatma' meaning 'great

known as 'Mahatma' meaning 'great soul'

compelling portrait of France under occupation and reveals the taboos and silence that surround this painful episode

Paralyzed from polio and raised by her Holocaust-surviving parents in New York City

Berenbaum holds out the hope of liberation for Judaism

By Marvell Ginsburg (Author) and Martin Lemelman (Illustrator)

The Journal of Helene Berr Education known as 'Mahatma' meaning 'greatBy Helene Berr Not since The Diary of Anne Frank has there been such a book as this: The joyful but ultimately heartbreaking journal of a young Jewish woman in occupied Paris, now being published for the first time, 63 years after her death in a Nazi concentration camp. On April 7, 1942, Hlne Berr, a 21 year old Jewish student of English literature at the Sorbonne, took up her pen and started to keep a journal, writing with verve and style about her