Auschwitz Testimonies: 1945-1986

by Primo Levi and Leonardo de Benedetti

Book Overview

In 1945, soon after the liberation of Auschwitz, Soviet authorities in control of the Kattowitz (Katowice) camp in Poland asked Primo Levi and his fellow captive Leonardo De Benedetti to compile a detailed report on the sanitary conditions they witnessed in Auschwitz. The result was an extraordinary testimony and one of the first accounts of the extermination camps ever written. Their report, published in a medical journal in 1946, marked the beginnings...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 150951337X
• ISBN13: 9781509513376
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.4"