In The Path Of Primo Levi

From: The New York Jewish Week | Date: June 8, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

In the eight months following his liberation from Auschwitz and recovery from typhoid and malnutrition, Primo Levi took a roundabout journey home from Poland by way of Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Romania, Austria and Germany. He documented that strange odyssey in his second book, "The Truce" (also know as "The Reawakening"), a surprisingly humorous and immensely moving volume that should be as well known as his more famous writings about the death camps.

It is that volume, rather than its betterknown brethren, that is the jumping-off point for a new documentary by Davide Ferrario, "Primo ...

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