Peter Feigl’s Diaries

Diary 1: August 27, 1942 — February 1, 1943 (Go to Entry 1, Diary 1)

Diary 2: January 1, 1944 — June 26, 1944 (Go to Entry 1, Diary 2)

Peter began his first diary when he was 13 after receiving news of his parents’ arrest and transfer to Le Vernet internment camp in France. Peter explained that the diary is a sort of continuing letter to his parents which one day he hoped to share with them. It ends abruptly when it disappears prior to his writing the February 1, 1943, entry. The second diary, started January 1, 1944, continues through June 26, 1944, his initial refugee period in Switzerland.

In June 1942, prior to starting his diary, Peter was living in Auch, France, with his mother and father, Agnes and Ernst Feigl.

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ABOVE: Image 1: Peter at home in Auch in 1941; Image 2: Peter’s mother, Agnes (3rd from right) at work at the Swiss Aid canteen in 1941. Image 3 & 4: June, 1942: a letter sent by Peter’s maternal grandmother, Flora Bornstein, who had successfully immigrated to America, to the American Friends Service Organization (Quakers) on behalf of Peter. Gallery image 5: The response back from the AFSC.

Image: front cover, original diary; written by a teenage Peter Feigl, beginning in 1942.

Peter Feigl’s diary, translations, and applicable images and documents are used with his permission.


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ABOVE: Opening diary pages: Image 1: “DIARY INTENDED FOR HIS DEAR PARENTS Belongs To FEIGL Pierre August 27, 1942″; Image 2: This DIARY is written for my PARENTS in the hope that it will reach them both in good health. Their son: Pierre Feigl. Condom, 27 August 1942.

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