Conversations with Primo Levi
by Primo Levi, Ferdinando Camon
InterviewsHolocaust survivorsItalian AuthorsLevi, primo, 1919-1987
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In conversations in Turin from 1982 to 1986, "Levi spoke of the war, of anti-Semitism, of the camps, of the German guilt, of the emergence of Israel, and of his own extraordinary life and his extraordinary work."--Cover.
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InterviewsHolocaust survivorsItalian AuthorsLevi, primo, 1919-1987
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Italy20th century
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Primo Levi
31 July 1919 – 11 April 1987
Primo Michele Levi (Turin, 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. He graduated in Chemistry from the University of Turin in 1941 and two years later joined the anti-fascist resistance. He was captured and deported to Auschwitz, where he worked as a slave in an industrial plant. After the camp was liberated by the Red Army in 1945 and after an odyssey through several Eastern European countries, he returned to Turin and published his first account of the extermination camps, *Se questo è un uomo* (*If This Is a Man* / US: *The Reawakening*). H…
Ferdinando Camon
1935
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