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October 16, 1943/Eight Jews
Giacomo Debenedetti
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Description for October 16, 1943/Eight Jews
Hardcover. For more than 50 years, Giacomo Debenedetti's "October 16, 1943" has been considered one of the best accounts of the shockingly brief roundup of 1000 Roman Jews for the gas chambers of Auschwitz. This collection also includes "Eight Jews", the companion piece to "October 16, 1943". Translator(s): Gilson, Estelle. Num Pages: 112 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; HBJD; HBTZ1; HBWQ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 149 x 15. Weight in Grams: 282.
For more than fifty years, Giacomo Debenedetti’s October 16, 1943 has been considered one of the best and most accurate accounts of the shockingly brief and efficient roundup of more than one thousand Roman Jews from the oldest Jewish community in Europe for the gas chambers of Auschwitz. Completed a year after the event, Debenedetti’s intimate details and vivid glimpses into the lives of the victims are especially poignant because Debenedetti himself was there to witness the event, which forced him and his entire family into hiding. Eight Jews, the companion piece to October 16, 1943, was written in response ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press United States
Number of pages
112
Condition
New
Number of Pages
112
Place of Publication
Notre Dame IN, United States
ISBN
9780268037130
SKU
V9780268037130
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About Giacomo Debenedetti
Giacamo Debenedetti (1901-1967) was a professor at the University of Messina and the University of Rome, an editor at an Italian publishing house, Italy’s foremost critic of twentieth-century literature, and a friend of leading leftist intellectuals, including Jean-Paul Sartre and Pablo Neruda.
Reviews for October 16, 1943/Eight Jews
“Debenedetti’s eyewitness account of these events, and those days preceding and following it, were written a year after the event, and are the most vivid and detailed description of the round-up.” —Lifestyles Magazine “October 16, 1943 is one of the finest accounts ever written about the massive German roundup of Jews in Rome on the date of its title. Debenedetti’s ... Read more