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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. For his part as an anti-fascist partisan during World War II, Primo Levi was deported to Auschwitz in 1944. In 1945, after the Russian liberation of this notorious camp, Levi and his friend, Dr. Leonardo de Benedetti, were asked by the Russians to provide a report on the 'so-called' living conditions in Auschwitz. Here, for the first time in English, is their gripping and poignant, detailed narrative of the deportations, selections for work and extermination, everyday life in the camp, and the organization and operation of the gas chambers. This report amounts to nothing less than a vivid account of the horrors of survival. 97p.

Paperback. Condizione: Near Fine. A nice, solid copy. ; 137.2 X 15.2 X 213.4 millimeters; 194 pages.

Trade paperback. Condizione: Very good. [6], 97, [9] pages. Occasional footnotes. Glossary of Medical and Pharmaceutical Terms. Bibliography. Primo Michele Levi (31 July 1919 - 11 April 1987) was an Italian Jewish chemist, writer, and Holocaust survivor. He was the author of several books, novels, collections of short stories, essays, and poems. His best-known works include If This Is a Man (1947) (U.S.: Survival in Auschwitz), his account of the year he spent as a prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland; and his unique work, The Periodic Table (1975), linked to qualities of the elements, which the Royal Institution of Great Britain named the best science book ever written. Leonardo de Benedetti (born September 15, 1898 in Turin, Italy; died October 16, 1983) was an Italian Jew and physician who was interned in the Auschwitz concentration camp from February 1944 until its liberation in January 1945. After the end of the Second World War he and fellow inmate Primo Levi wrote Auschwitz Report, a factual report of conditions inside the camp. First published as "Rapporto sull" in 1946. Auschwitz Report is a non-fiction report on the Auschwitz extermination camp by Primo Levi and Leonardo de Benedetti. Whilst in a Soviet holding camp in Katowice in 1945, Levi and de Benedetti were asked by the Soviet authorities to document the living conditions in Auschwitz. De Benedetti was on Levi's transport from Fossoli, near Modena, Italy. Both were left behind when the camp was evacuated and so their time at Auschwitz coincided exactly. De Benedetti was a medical doctor, though he only acted as a doctor in the final weeks of his time at the camp. His survival was truly amazing given that he was in his 40's when he arrived, as normally those over the age of 30 were sent directly to the gas chambers on arrival. First Published in English by Verso, First printing [stated].