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Auschwitz Report
Leonardo de Benedetti
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Description for Auschwitz Report
Hardcover. Good copy in dustwrapper. DW slightly stained.
While in a Russian-administered holding camp in Katowice, Poland, in 1945, Primo Levi was asked to provide a report on living conditions in Auschwitz. Published the following year, it was then forgotten, and has until now remained unknown to a wider public.
Dating from the weeks and months immediately after the war, Auschwitz Report represents a fascinating and unusual return to the very earliest phase of Holocaust testimony. It details the author's deportation to Auschwitz, selections for work and extermination, everyday life in the camp, and the organization and working of the gas chambers. It constitutes Levi's first, astonishingly lucid ... Read more
While in a Russian-administered holding camp in Katowice, Poland, in 1945, Primo Levi was asked to provide a report on living conditions in Auschwitz. Published the following year, it was then forgotten, and has until now remained unknown to a wider public.
Dating from the weeks and months immediately after the war, Auschwitz Report represents a fascinating and unusual return to the very earliest phase of Holocaust testimony. It details the author's deportation to Auschwitz, selections for work and extermination, everyday life in the camp, and the organization and working of the gas chambers. It constitutes Levi's first, astonishingly lucid ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Verso Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Number of Pages
97
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781844670925
SKU
KTG0008662
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Ref
99-3
About Leonardo de Benedetti
Primo Levi (1919-1987) was arrested as an anti-fascist partisan during World War II, and deported to Auschwitz in 1944. His books include The Drowned and the Saved, If This Is a Man, and The Periodic Table. He died in 1987. Leonardo de Benedetti (1898-1983) was an Italian Jew and physician who was interned in the Auschwitz concentration camp from February ... Read more
Reviews for Auschwitz Report
One of the most important and gifted writers of our time.
Italo Calvino
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