For his part as an anti-fascist partisan during World War II, Primo Levi was deported to Auschwitz in 1944. In 1945, after the Russian liberation of this notorious camp, Levi and his friend, Dr. Leonardo de Benedetti, were asked by the Russians to provide a report on the 'so-called' living conditions in Auschwitz. Here, for the first time in English, is their gripping and poignant, detailed narrative of the deportations, selections for work and extermination, everyday life in the camp, and the organization and operation of the gas chambers. This report amounts to nothing less than a vivid account of the horrors of survival. 97p.

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Auschwitz Report

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Fecha de publicaci�n

2006

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Ingl�s

ISBN 10

1844670929

ISBN 13

9781844670925

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Hardcover

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Good

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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 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 attempts to come to terms with the raw horror of events that would drive him to create some of the greatest works of twentieth-century literature and testimony. Auschwitz Report is a major literary and historical discovery.

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Leonardo de Benedetti (1898-1983) was an Italian Jew and physician who was interned in the Auschwitz concentration camp from February 1944 until its liberation in January 1945.

A chemist by training, 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. Norton will publish The Complete Works of Primo Levi in 2010.

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