“The Scattered Life I Lead” - The Diary of Lucien Dreyfus: a Yad Vashem Podcast [On the Holocaust]

Holocaust-era diary writing offers a rare glimpse into real-time events and personal reflections that, had they not been written, may well have been swept away in the rapid unfolding of events. The diary of a French Jewish intellectual, Lucien Dreyfus, helps us shed light on one person’s grappling with the calamity. In this episode of "On the Holocaust", we'll talk about Dreyfus's life, reflections and fate during the Holocaust as expressed in his wartime diary: “’A Terrible and Terribly Interesting Epoch’: The Holocaust Diary of Lucien Dreyfus.” . Featured guest: Alexandra Garbarini, Professor of History and Jewish Studies at Williams College in Massachusetts.

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“The Scattered Life I Lead” - The Diary of Lucien Dreyfus: a Yad Vashem Podcast [On the Holocaust] is an episode from On the Holocaust - Yad Vashem by Yad Vashem.

This episode is 28:23 long.

This episode was published on Apr 18, 2022.

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