Primo Levi
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Primo Michele Levi was a Jewish Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor and writer. He was the author of several books, collections of short stories, essays, poems and one novel. His best-known
Primo Levi artwork
IG Farben factory in Monowitz (near Auschwitz) 1941 50°02′10″N 19°16′32″E / 50.036094°N 19.275534°E / 50.036094; 19.275534 (Site of Buna Werke plant approximately 10km or 6.2 miles from Auschwitz)
Levi, 1950s
Rudolf Höss immediately before being hanged
Lorenzo Perrone
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Lorenzo Perrone born in Fossano, Italy, was an Italian mason who was transferred by his company to work at the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944. There he met and befriended Jewish-Italian prisoner
Primo Levi
…experienced Italian prisoner to help him improve his German and understand how to cope in Auschwitz. He was given a smuggled soup ration each day by Lorenzo Perrone, an Italian civilian bricklayer who was working at Auschwitz as a forced labourer. Levi's professional qualifications were useful to the Germans and…
Italian military mess kit
Maria Kotarba Dyplom