{"product_id":"auschwitz-report-isbn-9781781688045","title":"Auschwitz Report","description":"\u003cb\u003eAmong the first written accounts of the concentration camps—a major literary and historical discovery.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDating from the weeks and months immediately after the war, \u003ci\u003eAuschwitz Report\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eAuschwitz Report\u003c\/i\u003e is a major literary and historical discovery.“One of the most important and gifted writers of our time.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Italo Calvino\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The book is important not just because it is the first published work by Levi; it contains the seeds of his great \u003ci\u003eSurvival in Auschwitz\u003c\/i\u003e.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“One of the first written by eyewitnesses, it has an important place in Holocaust historiography.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An important corrective to the accepted view of Auschwitz.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “More than anything else I’ve read or seen, Levi’s books helped me not only to grasp the reality of genocide but to figure out what it means for people like me who grew up sheltered from the storm.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Meredith Tax, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVillage Voice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eA chemist by training, \u003cb\u003ePrimo Levi\u003c\/b\u003e (1919–1987) was arrested as an anti-fascist partisan during World War IIand deported to Auschwitz in 1944. His books include \u003ci\u003eThe Drowned and the Saved\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e If This Is a Man\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Periodic Table\u003c\/i\u003e. He died in 1987.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e Leonardo de Benedetti\u003c\/b\u003e (1898–1983) was an Italian Jew and physician who was interned in the Auschwitz concentration camp from February 1944 until its liberation in January 1945.","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300543779045,"sku":"NP9781781688045","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781781688045.jpg?v=1767721966","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/auschwitz-report-isbn-9781781688045","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}