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A terrible and terribly interesting epoch : the Holocaust diary of Lucien Dreyfus / Alexandra Garbarini, Jean-Marc Dreyfus.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dreyfus, Lucien, author.
- Series:
- Documenting life and destruction ; 14.
- Documenting life and destruction: Holocaust sources in context ; 14
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--France--Vichy--Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- France--Vichy.
- Genre:
- Personal narratives.
- Personal narratives -- Jewish.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (375 pages)
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2022.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2022.
- Summary:
- This trenchant diary provides a rare glimpse into the daily life of French and foreign-born Jewish refugees under the Vichy regime during WWII. Lucien Dreyfus offers readers a unique philosophical and moral reflection on the Holocaust as it was unfolding in France up until he and his wife were deported and murdered in Auschwitz in late 1943.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 17, 2021).
- ISBN:
- 979-82-16-40742-3
- 979-88-8187-423-0
- 1-5381-5503-6
- OCLC:
- 1283856240
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