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Auschwitz Report Kindle Edition

by Primo Levi (Author), Leonardo De Benedetti (Author), Robert S. C. Gordon (Editor) Format: Kindle Edition

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Among the first written accounts of the concentration camps—a major literary and historical discovery.

While in a Russian-administered holding camp in Katowice, Poland, in 1945, Primo Levi was asked to provide a report on living conditions in Auschwitz. Published the following year, it was subsequently forgotten and remained unknown to a wider public.

Dating from the weeks and months immediately after the war, Auschwitz Report details the authors’ harrowing deportation to Auschwitz, and how those who disembarked from the train were selected for work or extermination. As well as being a searing narrative of everyday life in the camp, and the organization and working of the gas chambers, it constitutes Levi’s first lucid attempts to come to terms with the raw horror of events that would drive him to create some of the greatest works of twentieth-century literature and testimony. Auschwitz Report is a major literary and historical discovery.

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First published in Italy in 1946, this newly rediscovered early work by the celebrated late author of such Holocaust memoirs as Survival in Auschwitz—an eyewitness account of conditions at Buna-Monowitz, a satellite camp of Auschwitz—appears in English for the first time. The short report was written for the Russian authorities who had liberated the camp and were gathering information on German war crimes. While the report is not exactly a curiosity—one of the first written by eyewitnesses, it has an important place in Holocaust historiography—it contains little new information. Some of what it does contain—for instance, the authors thought the Sonderkommandos were criminal inmates rather than Jews—we now know to be inaccurate. Despite this, the publication of the document gives readers, and especially Holocaust scholars, new insights into Levi's work. An excellent introduction by editor Gordon gives an astute overview of the stylistic and historical relationship between this work and Levi's later autobiographical writings. Levi's training as a chemist and his friend and fellow survivor De Benedetti's training as a physician bring to the piece a dispassionate tone that has, in a sense, prefigured the best writing about the Holocaust. This is an important addition to Holocaust literature, but probably of limited interest to the general reader. (Oct.)
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From The New Yorker

After the Red Army liberated Auschwitz, in 1945, the Russian command asked two ex-prisoners, Primo Levi, a young chemist, and his friend Leonardo De Benedetti, a physician, to write a report on the camp's sanitary and medical arrangements. The following year, when the two men got home, they published their report in a medical journal and forgot about it. In this volume it appears in English for the first time. As Robert S. C. Gordon says in his thoughtful introduction, the book is important not just because it is the first published work by Levi; it contains the seeds of his great "Survival in Auschwitz." This was the source of that book's remarkable chapter on the camp's infirmary. Stylistically, too, the "Report" can be seen as a trial run. It has the same noble sobriety as "Survival in Auschwitz," lit with flashes of irony. The supreme irony, of course, is that Auschwitz had an infirmary at all.
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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00N6PCNWE
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Verso; Reprint edition (March 3, 2015)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 3, 2015
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 312 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 112 pages

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Primo Levi
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Primo Michele Levi (Italian: [ˈpriːmo ˈlɛːvi]; 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.
Levi died in 1987 from injuries sustained in a fall from a third-story apartment landing. While his death was officially ruled a suicide, some evidence supports the possibility that the fall was accidental.
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Ron

Highly recommended!!

Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2016

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It is actually the first book Levi ever wrote.It brought the first information to the world,who did not want to believe about the horrors happened at the camp .It is the base for his famous next book If this is man ?
It shows the fingerprints of the way Levi became so important as a witness and I think it is indispensable to our understanding Levi and his writing.
Highly recommended !!!

Reviewed in the United States on February 15, 2007

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As you may already know, Primo Levi on the Holocaust can be seriously depressing.

The brief Auschwitz Report is an uemotional report of some of the events and practices

Levi witnessed there. Perhaps the lack of obvious emotion brings our horror into sharp relief.

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LFD

Unbiased, Direct and Profound

Reviewed in the United States on January 1, 2015

The first English printing of this classic work by Primo Levi and Leonardo de Benedetti. Soon after their liberation by Soviet troops, they were asked to write a clinical report--Levi was a chemist and Benedetti a doctor--describing the health conditions at Auschwitz. Impressive in its directness.

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