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Dreyfus, Lucien, author.

"A terrible and terribly interesting epoch" : the Holocaust diary of Lucien Dreyfus / [edited by] Alexandra Garbarini, Jean-Marc Dreyfus.

Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2022.

xiv, 357 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Provides a rare glimpse into the daily life of French and foreign-born Jewish refugees under the Vichy regime during World War II. Long hidden, the diary was written by Lucien Dreyfus, a native of Alsace, who was a teacher at the most prestigious high school in Strasbourg, an editor of the leading Jewish newspaper of Alsace and Lorraine. In 1939, after the French declaration of war on Hitler's Germany, Lucien and his wife, Marthe, were forced by the French state to leave Strasbourg along with thousands of other Jewish and non-Jewish residents of the city. The couple found refuge in Nice, on the Mediterranean coast in the south of France. Anti-Jewish laws prevented Lucien from resuming his teaching career and his work as a newspaper editor. But he continued to write, recording his reflections on the situation of France and French Jews under the Vichy regime. Rounded up during an SS raid in September 1943, Lucien and Marthe were deported and murdered in Auschwitz-Birkenau two months later.

Documenting life and destruction ; 14

Dreyfus, Lucien -- Diaries.

Holocaust victims -- France -- Diaries.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- France -- Vichy -- Personal narratives, Jewish.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.

World War, 1939-1945 -- France -- Personal narratives.

Holocaust diary of Lucien Dreyfus

Translated from the French.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Intro -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Illustrations -- Part I: Introduction to Lucien Dreyfus and His Diary -- Condition of the Manuscript -- Prewar Biography of the Diarist -- A Refugee in Nice -- Final Weeks -- Part II: Lucien Dreyfus's Diary -- Notebook A -- Notebook B -- Notebook C -- Notebook D -- [Notebook E] -- [Notebook F] -- Notebook G -- Part III: Related Documents -- Document 1: Lucien Dreyfus, "France's Attitude toward Foreigners," La Tribune juive de Strasbourg, January 6, 1939

Document 2: Lucien Dreyfus, "Can We Escape Our Community?," La Tribune juive de Strasbourg, January 27, 1939 -- Document 3: Lucien Dreyfus, "The 150th Anniversary of the French Revolution," La Tribune juive de Strasbourg, May 12, 1939 -- Document 4: Lucien Dreyfus, "A Philanthropic and Patriotic Work," La Tribune juive de Strasbourg, June 2, 1939 -- Document 5: Lucien Dreyfus, "Yeshiva and University," La Tribune juive de Strasbourg, June 9, 1939 -- Document 6: Joseph Bloch, "In Memoriam Lucien Dreyfus," October 1947, Lucien Dreyfus Papers, USHMM Archive 1994.A.0112 -- Index -- About the Editors

DS135.F9 D75 2022

9781538155028

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* 1538155036

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