David Klin and Lucien Dreyfus
Thursday, June 14, 2018 at 7:30 pm
On the occasion of the publication, aux éd. Le Manuscrit / Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah-Collection Témoignages de la Shoah, de A terrible and terribly interesting period. Le journal de 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, about 1902, © USHMM.
High school teacher in Strasbourg who took refuge in Nice in 1940, Lucien Dreyfus (59 years old) keeps a diary. It tells the story of the small community of Alsatian refugees, the difficulties of daily life and supplies. Cynical, tragic, but also often funny, he is a moralist with a vast culture, both German and French. Lucien was deported to Auschwitz on 20 November 1943, where he was assassinated.
David Klin is one of the leaders of the Bund’s Jewish socialist movement and one of the delegates of the humanitarian organization American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. In the Warsaw Ghetto and beyond, he organized relief for the Jewish population. Sentenced to death by the Gestapo, he joined the "Aryan" zone. In the summer of 1944, he participated in the uprising in 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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