This extraordinary wartime diary provides a rare glimpse into the daily life of French and foreignborn 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 w