Auschwitz Testimonies by Primo Levi

Author:Primo Levi
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2017-11-19T16:00:00+00:00

Notes

Published in Storia dell’antifascismo italiano [History of Italian Anti-Fascism], ed. Luigi Arbizzani and Alberto Caltabiano (Rome: Editori Riuniti, 1964), vol. II, Testimonianze [Testimonies].

In 1961, Levi was invited to speak by the committee organizing the celebrations of the centenary of the Unification of Italy in the city of Bologna, which had arranged a series of twelve weekly lectures, taking place at the Teatro Comunale (Communal Theatre). His talk took place on 13 March; that evening, another famous Italian writer of Jewish descent also gave his testimony (‘The Fascist Assault on the Ferrara Synagogue’): Giorgio Bassani, the author of The Garden of the Finzi-Contini.

1 Editors’ note: In Fascist terminology, ‘pietism’ has nothing to do with the religious movement originating in Germany in the late seventeenth century. It denotes excessive sympathy, a tendency to pity the lot of one's enemies, a weakness of character which ought not to infect a genuine Fascist.

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