pickShortly after liberation from Auschwitz, Primo Levi & friend Dr Leonardo de Benedetti were asked by Russian authorities to report on conditions & practices in the camp. This is that report.
Republished for a wider audience in 1946, it‘s unemotional but hard-hitting, with a graphic focus on medical states, treatments & squalor. Not one to linger over, it undoubtedly adds to the understanding you get from more personal survivors‘ memoirs.
I've already started it and it's an objective yet haunting report of what the authors saw and lived through in Auschwitz. Requested by the Soviets after liberating the camp, Levi and Benedetti must try and describe the camp with an almost scientific eye. Nonetheless, in between the lines, the horror still seeps out, often making me go back and make sure I actually read what I just read. #vozesdoholocausto #hol73
pickPrimo Levi, an #Italian #Jewish #chemist and a #Holocaust #survivor wrote about the living conditions in Auschwitz in this #Auschwitz #Report. The prisoners had to endure deplorable living conditions (meager food, diseases, lack of medical treatment, etc). Since this is a report, it offered an interesting perspective on the events which took place in Auschwitz. #bibliophage #booknerd #WWII #nonfiction #history #readforlife #read150
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