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Leonardo de Benedetti (15 September 1898 – 16 October 1983) 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.
His books include The Drowned and the Saved, If This Is a Man and The Periodic Table. He died in 1987. Leonardo de Benedetti (1898–1983) was an Italian Jew and physician who was interned in...
By Primo Levi, and Leonardo De Benedetti. Edited by Robert S. C. Gordon (NHC Fellow, 2005–06) London: Verso, 2006. From the publisher’s description: 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 ...
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Oct 22, 2006 · 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...
Jul 23, 2007 · Among the several hundred sick and dying left behind by the retreating Germans were two Italian Jews, both from Turin: a 46-year-old doctor, Leonardo de Benedetti, and a 25-year-old chemistry graduate, Primo Levi. They had both arrived in Auschwitz on the same train convoy, probably in the same cattle truck, eleven months earlier.
Oct 16, 2017 · In 1945, soon after the liberation of Auschwitz, Soviet authorities in control of the Kattowitz (Katowice) camp in Poland asked Primo Levi and his fellow captive Leonardo De Benedetti to...
Auschwitz Report (2006) is a non-fiction report on the Auschwitz extermination camp by Primo Levi and Leonardo de Benedetti. [1] When Levi and de Benedetti were in a Soviet holding camp in Katowice in 1945 the Soviet authorities asked them to document the living conditions in Auschwitz.
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