Noémie Hollemechette: Journal d'une petite réfugiée belge

A Belgian girl's wartime journal traces everyday family life before and during the German invasion, opening with seaside holiday plans and childhood routines and then shifting to mobilization, fear, and evacuation as soldiers are summoned. The entries record practical preparations and small domestic pleasures alongside growing disruption: discussions among adults, troop movements, shortages, and the arrival of refugees. Seen through a young perspective, the narrative mixes personal impressions, imaginative diversions, and mounting anxiety, yielding an intimate, ground-level portrait of civilian upheaval, resilience, and the steady attempt to preserve ordinary amusements amid early twentieth-century conflict.