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Hélène Berr

1921 - 1945

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Hélène Berr (27 March 1921 – 10 April 1945) was a French Jewish woman, who documented her life in a diary during the time of Nazi occupation of France. In France she is considered to be a "French Anne Frank". She died from typhus during an epidemic of the disease in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp that also killed Anne Frank and her sister Margot. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hélène Berr is the 3,415th most popular writer (up from 4,203rd in 2019), the 3,507th most popular biography from France (up from 4,014th in 2019) and the 442nd most popular French Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Hélène Berr ranks 3,415 out of 7,302Before her are Ephraim Chambers, Hiromi Kawakami, Jean-François Revel, Johann Most, Lillian Hellman, and Pierre Jean Jouve. After her are Tristan Bernard, Karl Ove Knausgård, Niccolò Tommaseo, Alexis Piron, Lyudmila Petrushevskaya, and Mariano Azuela.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Hélène Berr ranks 211Before her are Naomi Parker Fraley, Juan Zambudio Velasco, Branko Mamula, Ezzard Charles, Viktor Chukarin, and Antonio María Javierre Ortas. After her are Henri Colpi, Rashid Karami, Max Noether, Andrzej Munk, Lis Hartel, and Blaže Koneski. Among people deceased in 1945, Hélène Berr ranks 236Before her are Sekula Drljević, Salomėja Nėris, Carl Moll, Ludwig Diels, Kurt von der Chevallerie, and Vilhelms Purvītis. After her are Arthur Wynne, Princess Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen, Ángel Melogno, Alexander Khatisian, Albert Tyler, and Richárd Weisz.

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In France

Among people born in France, Hélène Berr ranks 3,507 out of 6,770Before her are Hugues Aufray (1929), Raël (1946), François-Auguste Biard (1799), Nicolas Trigault (1577), Daniel Bensaïd (1946), and Pierre Jean Jouve (1887). After her are Tristan Bernard (1866), Michel Duchaussoy (1938), Petrus de Cruce (1300), Alexis Piron (1689), Louis Laurent Gabriel de Mortillet (1821), and Jean-Baptiste Arban (1825).

Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Hélène Berr ranks 442Before her are Françoise d'Eaubonne (1920), Thomas of Britain (1200), William of Jumièges (1000), Charles de Saint-Évremond (1613), Jean-François Revel (1924), and Pierre Jean Jouve (1887). After her are Tristan Bernard (1866), Alexis Piron (1689), Anna Gavalda (1970), Johann Fischart (1546), Michel Ocelot (1943), and Remigius of Auxerre (841).