Auschwitz Testimonies
Levi, Primo / De Benedetti, Leonardo / Levi, Fabio / Scarpa, Domenico / Gordon, Robert S. C. / Woolf, Judith
In 1945, soon after liberation, 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 in Auschwitz. The result was an extraordinary testimony and one of the first accounts of the extermination camps ever written. The Report on the Monowitz Camp, published in a medical journal in 1946, marked the beginnings of...