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Primo Levi ou la tragédie d'un optimiste : biographie / Myriam Anissimov.

Title
Primo Levi ou la tragédie d'un optimiste : biographie / Myriam Anissimov.
Author
Anissimov, Myriam
Publication
[Paris] : J.C. Lattès, c1996.

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Additional Authors
Feldman, Ruth
Description
698 p.; 24 cm.
Summary
Traces the life of Primo Levi, born in Turin in 1919. Recounts his childhood under fascism, and the situation of the Jews in Italy during the 1930s and as victims of the racial laws in the 1940s. Pt. 1 (pp. 25-399) describes his life until the end of World War II, including his partisan activities in 1943, his arrest by the fascist militia, internment at Fossoli di Carpi with 650 Jews, and their deportation to Auschwitz-Monowitz where he worked as a chemist for I.G. Farben. He was one of three survivors of his convoy. Describes his liberation by the Soviets in January 1945 and his way back to Turin, arriving in October 1945. Discusses, also, his decision to act as a witness to the world of the Holocaust, his lectures, and his publications until his suicide in 1987.
Alternative Title
  • Tragédie d'un optimiste.
  • Primo Levi
  • Tragédie d'un optimiste
Subject
  • Levi, Primo, 1919-1987
  • Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
  • 1900-1999
  • Authors, Italian > 20th century > Biography
  • Holocaust survivors > Italy > Biography
Genre/Form
Biographies
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
2709612968
OCLC
  • 36681829
  • SCSB-11360947
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library