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.

As the persecution and deportation of the Jews increased in 1943, Hélène and her family no longer felt safe in their apartment at 5 Elisee Reclus, just blocks from the Eiffel Tower.

In March of that year, Helene and her parents began staying most nights with friends to avoid the raids being conducted by the Nazis and Vichy police.

In November 1992, Hélène Berr's niece, Mariette Job, decided to track down Morawiecki with a view to publishing the diary.

[clarification needed] The diary has been stored at Paris' Mémorial de la Shoah (Holocaust Memorial Museum) since 2002.

The Libération paper declared it as "the editorial event at the beginning of 2008"[3] and reminded the readers of the lively discussions about the book of Ukrainian Jewish novelist Irène Némirovsky.