Primo Levi's If This is a Man and Responses to the Lager in Italy 1945-47
AFTER ELEVEN MONTHS IN AUSCHWITZ-MONOWITZ AND TEN months wandering through war-torn central Europe, Prima Levi returned to Turin in October 1945. On his journey home and in Turin, he took to telling what had happened to friends, family, and strangers, and very soon--by December 1945 at the latest--he had begun writing these stories down, at work or on commuter trains. Over 1946 the stories grew into a book, ...