Alexandra Garbarini is professor of history and Jewish studies at Williams College.Jean-Marc Dreyfus is a professor at the University of Manchester and associate researcher at the Centre of History, Sciences-Po Paris.

A riveting document. This intellectual, a refugee in Nice, lived and kept his diary as an observer on a volcano that he believed dormant. As a Frenchman, he was not threatened in the free zone by the Vichy police; nor did he have to fear the Italian military, protectors of the Jews, who would occupy the southeast of France. But we who know that the Germans will drive out the Italians know the outcome of this suspenseful story, which makes the reading of each page of this diary anguishing: Lucien Dreyfus, so representative of a culturally refined elite, will perish in a gas chamber.

• Abbreviations Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Map 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, December 20, 1940–May 7, 1941 Notebook B, May 8, 1941–June 14, 1942 Notebook C, June 15, 1942–August 23, 1942 Notebook D, August 24, 1942–November 13, 1942 [Notebook E] November 18, 1942–February 15, 1943 [Notebook F] February 27, 1943–June 30, 1943 Notebook G, August 1, 1943–September 24, 1943 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 FrenchRevolution,” 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 Tribunejuive 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

Alexandra Garbarini is professor of history and Jewish studies at Williams College.Jean-Marc Dreyfus is a professor at the University of Manchester and associate researcher at the Centre of History, Sciences-Po Paris.

A riveting document. This intellectual, a refugee in Nice, lived and kept his diary as an observer on a volcano that he believed dormant. As a Frenchman, he was not threatened in the free zone by the Vichy police; nor did he have to fear the Italian military, protectors of the Jews, who would occupy the southeast of France. But we who know that the Germans will drive out the Italians know the outcome of this suspenseful story, which makes the reading of each page of this diary anguishing: Lucien Dreyfus, so representative of a culturally refined elite, will perish in a gas chamber.

• Abbreviations Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Map 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, December 20, 1940–May 7, 1941 Notebook B, May 8, 1941–June 14, 1942 Notebook C, June 15, 1942–August 23, 1942 Notebook D, August 24, 1942–November 13, 1942 [Notebook E] November 18, 1942–February 15, 1943 [Notebook F] February 27, 1943–June 30, 1943 Notebook G, August 1, 1943–September 24, 1943 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 FrenchRevolution,” 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 Tribunejuive 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

Alexandra Garbarini is professor of history and Jewish studies at Williams College.Jean-Marc Dreyfus is a professor at the University of Manchester and associate researcher at the Centre of History, Sciences-Po Paris.

A riveting document. This intellectual, a refugee in Nice, lived and kept his diary as an observer on a volcano that he believed dormant. As a Frenchman, he was not threatened in the free zone by the Vichy police; nor did he have to fear the Italian military, protectors of the Jews, who would occupy the southeast of France. But we who know that the Germans will drive out the Italians know the outcome of this suspenseful story, which makes the reading of each page of this diary anguishing: Lucien Dreyfus, so representative of a culturally refined elite, will perish in a gas chamber.

• Abbreviations Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Map 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, December 20, 1940–May 7, 1941 Notebook B, May 8, 1941–June 14, 1942 Notebook C, June 15, 1942–August 23, 1942 Notebook D, August 24, 1942–November 13, 1942 [Notebook E] November 18, 1942–February 15, 1943 [Notebook F] February 27, 1943–June 30, 1943 Notebook G, August 1, 1943–September 24, 1943 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 FrenchRevolution,” 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 Tribunejuive 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