Hannelore Bähr reads from Paula Bermann's moving diaries

Hannelore Bähr reads from Paula Bermann's moving diaries

Landschaftsstraße 4, 66869 Kusel, Deutschland - On Monday, November 18, the Kaiserslauterer Hannelore Bähr will have a moving reading from "The Designed World. The diaries of Paula Bermann 1940-1944" at 7 p.m. These urgent diaries come from the Jewish author Paula Bermann, who was born in the West Palatinate. The event is presented by the Heimat- und Stadtmuseum Förderverein and promises to captivate the audience.

Paula Bermann, born in 1895, lived in Kusel before married the Dutch Coenraad van it in 1918 and moved to Amsterdam. There three children saw the light of day. From 1933 she began to conduct diaries, some of which were lost later. The records that she wrote from May 1940, the time of the German invasion in Holland, are of great importance. They end abruptly in the spring of 1944 when Paula, her husband and daughter Inge revealed and deported to the notorious concentration camp Bergen-Belsen through the Westerbork camp.

an urgent insight into life in the war

The diaries offer a shocking insight into the everyday life of a German family in the war years, shaped by fear and despair about the systematic annihilation of the Jews. Paula Bermann describes her worries about the children and life in hiding, which makes reading an emotional experience. Journalist Rainer Clos will moderate the reading and provide background information on the Bermann family, about which he has already reported in the Rheinpfalz. This literary event is not only a tribute to Paula Bermann, but also an important sign against forgetting.