A terrible and terribly interesting epoch" the Holocaust diary of Lucien Dreyfus

This wartime diary provides a rare glimpse into the daily life of French and foreign-born Jewish refugees under the Vichy regime during World War II. Rounded up during an SS raid in September 1943,Dreyfus and his wife were deported and murdered in Auschwitz-Birkenau two months later. As the only diary by an observant Jew raised bi-culturally in French and German, Dreyfus's writing offers a unique philosophical and moral reflection on the Holocaust as it was unfolding in France.