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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 subsequently forgotten and remained unknown to a wider public.
Dating from the weeks and months immediately after the war, Auschwitz Report details the authors' harrowing deportation to Auschwitz, and how those who disembarked from the train were selected for work or extermination. As well as being a searing narrative of everyday life in the camp, and the organization and working of the gas chambers, it constitutes Levi's first 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 subsequently forgotten and remained unknown to a wider public.
Dating from the weeks and months immediately after the war, Auschwitz Report details the authors' harrowing deportation to Auschwitz, and how those who disembarked from the train were selected for work or extermination. As well as being a searing narrative of everyday life in the camp, and the organization and working of the gas chambers, it constitutes Levi's first lucid ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Verso
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
112
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781688045
SKU
V9781781688045
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Ref
99-3
About Primo Levi
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 An important corrective to the accepted view of Auschwitz.
Guardian
The book is important not just because it is the first published work by Levi; it contains the seeds of his great Survival in Auschwitz.
New Yorker
One of the first written ... Read more
Italo Calvino An important corrective to the accepted view of Auschwitz.
Guardian
The book is important not just because it is the first published work by Levi; it contains the seeds of his great Survival in Auschwitz.
New Yorker
One of the first written ... Read more