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Shortly 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.