"I have a duty to write because other people must know. Every hour of every day there is another painful realization that other folk do not know, do not even imagine, the suffering of other men, the evil that some of them inflict. And I am still trying to make the painful effort to tell the story. Because it is a duty, it is maybe the only one I can fulfill."
— Hélène Berr: a young French-Jewish woman who began writing in her diary about the Occupation at age twenty-one.
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16 July (Short Story)
Historical FictionParis, 1942. In one day, everything can change. That's what happened to Yvonne Bloch as she and her Jewish family are forced from their apartment and into a former Parisian racetrack to await their fates. *Based on true historical events.*
