Tag: Testimonies

Free Download Primo Levi, "Auschwitz Testimonies: 1945-1986"
English | ISBN: 1509513361 | 2017 | 220 pages | AZW3 | 1291 KB
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 compile a detailed report on the sanitary conditions they witnessed in Auschwitz. The result was an extraordinary testimony and one of the first accounts of the extermination camps ever written. Their report, published in a medical journal in 1946, marked the beginnings of Levi’s life-long work as writer, analyst and witness.

Free Download Petra M. Schweitzer, "Gendered Testimonies of the Holocaust: Writing Life"
English | ISBN: 0739190075 | 2016 | 134 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Gendered Testimonies of the Holocaust: Writing Life begins with the premise that writing proves virtually synonymous with survival, bearing the traces of life and of death carried within those who survived the atrocities of the Nazis. In reading specific testimonies by survivor-writers Paul Celan, Charlotte Delbo, Olga Lengyel, Gisella Perl, and Dan Pagis, this text seeks to answer the question: How was it possible for these survivors to write about human destruction, if death is such an intimate part of the survivors’ survival?