Description
Provides a report on living conditions in the concentration camp for Russian authorities. Representing the attempts at fathoming the horrors, this work details the deportation to Auschwitz, selections for work and extermination, everyday life in the camp, and the organization and operation of the gas chambers.
One of the most important and gifted writers of our time.
An important corrective to the accepted view of Auschwitz.
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.
One of the first written by eyewitnesses, it has an important place in Holocaust historiography.
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 1944 until its liberation in January 1945.