""A Terrible and Terribly Interesting Epoch"" - 9781538155028

\""A Terrible and Terribly Interesting Epoch\""The Holocaust Diary of Lucien Dreyfus\nAuthor(s): Alexandra Garbarini, Jean-Marc Dreyfus\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Rowman & Littlefield\nISBN-13: 9781538155028, 978-1538155028\nSynopsis\nPublished in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum\nThis extraordinary 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. Long hidden, the diary was written by Lucien Dreyfus, a native of Alsacewho was a teacher at the most prestigious high school in Strasbourg, an editor of the leading Jewish newspaper of Alsace and Lorraine, the devoted father of an only daughter, and the doting grandfather of an only granddaughter. 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 .