Auschwitz Report

Primo Levi, Leonardo de Benedetti

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English

Verso
25 March 2015

History; European history; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; The Holocaust; Second World War

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 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.

By: Primo Levi, Leonardo de Benedetti
Imprint: Verso
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 9mm
Weight: 130g
ISBN: 9781781688045
ISBN 10: 1781688044
Pages: 112
Publication Date: 25 March 2015
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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. He is the author of many books including The Drowned and the Saved and If This is a Man.

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 by eyewitnesses, it has an important place in Holocaust historiography. * Publishers Weekly *