Leonardo de Benedetti
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Leonardo de Benedetti was an Italian
Jew and physician who was interned in the Auschwitz concentration camp
from February 1944 until its liberation in January 1945. After the end of the Second World War he and fellow inmate Primo Levi
wrote Auschwitz Report
, a factual report of conditions inside the camp.
Italy
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Jew and physician who was interned in the Auschwitz concentration camp
Auschwitz concentration camp
Concentration camp Auschwitz was a network of Nazi concentration and extermination camps built and operated by the Third Reich in Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany during World War II...
from February 1944 until its liberation in January 1945. After the end of the Second World War he and fellow inmate Primo Levi
Primo Levi
Primo Michele Levi was an Italian Jewish chemist and writer. He was the author of two novels and several collections of short stories, essays, and poems, but is best known for If This Is a Man, his account of the year he spent as a prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland...
wrote Auschwitz Report
Auschwitz Report
Auschwitz Report is a non-fiction report on the Auschwitz extermination camp by Primo Levi and Leonardo de Benedetti.Whilst in a Soviet holding camp in Katowice in 1945, Levi and de Benedetti were asked by the Soviet authorities to document the living conditions in Auschwitz. De Benedetti was on...
, a factual report of conditions inside the camp.