David Klin and Lucien Dreyfus
Thursday 14 June 2018 at 7:30 PM
On the occasion of the publication, at the ed. The Manuscript / Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah-Collection of Testimonies of the Shoah, from A terrible and terribly interesting period. The diary of Lucien Dreyfus, December 20, 1940 – September 24, 1943, 2018, and À cache-cache avec la mort. Un résistant juif à Varsovie de 1939 à 1945, by David Klin, translated from Yiddish by Bernard Vaisbrot, 2017.
Lucien Dreyfus posing in the manner of his favorite author, Heinrich Heine, Paris, circa 1902, © USHMM.
High school teacher in Strasbourg who took refuge in Nice in 1940, Lucien Dreyfus (59 years old) keeps a diary. He tells about the small environment of the Alsatian refugees, the difficulties of daily life and food supply. Cynical, tragic, but also often funny, he is a moralist with a vast culture, both German and French. Lucien was deported to Auschwitz on November 20, 1943, where he was assassinated.
David Klin is one of the leaders of the Bund Jewish socialist movement and a delegate to the humanitarian organization American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. In the Warsaw ghetto and beyond, he organizes aid for the Jewish population. Sentenced to death by the Gestapo, he joins the 'Aryan' zone. In the summer of 1944, he participated in the uprising of the capital.
In partnership with 
David Klin, his wife, Franciszka, and their son Bronislaw, at the beginning of the Second World War. © Marczak private archives.
In the presence of Alexandra Garbarini, historian, Williams College, Massachusetts, Jean-Marc Dreyfus, historian, University of Manchester, Serge Klarsfeld, lawyer, president of the FFDJF, and Bernard Vaisbrot, translator and teacher of Yiddish.
Moderated by Jean-Charles Szurek, emeritus research director, CNRS.
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