Diary of a Witness, 1940-1943

By (author) Raymond-Raoul Lambert Introduction by Richard Cohen Translated by Isabel Best

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Publication date:

15 October 2007

Length of book:

288 pages

Publisher

Ivan R. Dee

ISBN-13: 9781461739500

Raymond-Raoul Lambert's Diary has been among the most important untranslated records of the experience of French Jews in the Holocaust. Lambert, a leader of the Union of French Jews (UGIF), was, in the words of the historian Michael Marrus, "arguably the most important Jewish official in contact with the Vichy government and the Germans." Lambert's Diary survived the war and was published in France in 1985. It reveals Lambert's efforts to save the Jews in France, particularly the children.
Compelling. . . . This absorbing diary provides even more evidence of Nazi crimes against humanity.