COSI FU AUSCHWITZ (THIS WAS AUSCHWITZ)

Book ID/图书代码： 04851515B81870

English Summary/英文概要： In 1945, in the aftermath of the Liberation, the Soviet soldiers who now controlled the camp for former prisoners in Katowice, Poland, asked Primo Levi and his fellow prisoners Leonardo De Benedetti to write up a detailed report on the health conditions of the concentration camp. The result was Auschwitz Report: an ex-traordinary account, one of the first accounts ever written of the death camps. The report, published in 1946 in the specialised journal

“Minerva Medica”, is the starting point of every-thing Primo Levi later wrote, as a witness, an analyst, and a writer. In the four decades that followed, Levi never stopped recounting the experience of Auschwitz in writings of various nature, many of which were never published in book form.

From his deposition for the Eichmann trial to his statements in the Bosshammer trial, from the letter to the daughter of a Fascist who was asking about what really happened to various articles that appeared in specialised newspa-pers and magazines, Così fu Auschwitz is a mo-saic of memories of inestimable historical and human value. A collection of eyewitness ac-counts, memories, and reflections that thanks to their consistency, the clarity of their style, and their rigour, give us a Primo Levi who is op-posed to rhetoric, measured, precise, and dry.

The Primo Levi that we have learned to recog-nise as a classic of our literature.

“Once all the people were inside the gas cham-ber, the doors were locked (the doors were air-tight) and a chemical preparation was dropped through the airlocks in the ceiling, in the form of a coarse powder, blue gray in colour, con-tained in tin canisters; these bore a label identi-fying them as Zyklon B.”

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 本书是奥斯维辛集中营幸存者的证词合集，由身为化学家的莱维及其奥斯维辛狱友、外科医生德·贝内代蒂共同整理撰写。这些1945—1986年间的证词来源各异，既有莱维和德·贝内代蒂自己所叙之事实，也有其他被囚禁、迫害者乃至施暴者家属的现身说法，它们都真实有力地反映了集中营里囚犯们的非人生活。诚如莱维所言，“执着地修正自己可能出的差错，常常会赋予搜寻真相的人一种身份，而它胜过单纯的证人身份。”这些证词是必不可少的记忆，成为我们反思历史和人之价值的依据。(DB)

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1、这是一本真实、勇敢的纳粹集中营见证实录，其中收录的证词为纳粹战犯的追责提供了不可或缺的证据，也为后世了解那一段黑暗与恐怖的历史提供了一次珍贵的机会。

2、在书中，见证者们谈到了囚犯工厂、宿舍、医务室、死亡淋浴室与焚尸炉，谈到了集中营里的生活以及战后的省思。即便战争已经过去，对亲历者而言奥斯维辛就像一场如影随形的噩梦，从梦中醒来的唯一办法就是直面那些残酷时刻，不断接近历史真相。

3、本书揭露了鲜为人知的奥斯维辛真相，解答了普通人关于奥斯维辛的疑问，例如：集中营是否发生过囚犯暴动？囚犯之间如何互相帮助？纳粹军官如何筛选、处死囚犯？战败将至，纳粹怎样以最后的疯狂迁移并屠杀众多囚犯？莱维与贝内代蒂在回答这些问题的同时，揭示了集中营的无边黑暗，直指“人之为人”的本质。

About the Author/作者介绍： 普里莫·莱维，意大利犹太人，作家，化学家，奥斯维辛174517号囚犯。1919年，莱维出生于意大利都灵；1943年，他因参与反法西斯运动被捕，后被遣送至集中营。战争结束后，他回到故乡都灵生活。在此后的人生中，他从事工业化学这一行当30年，同时作为一位作家，写作了“奥斯维辛三部曲”（《这是不是个人》《休战》和《被淹没与被拯救的》），以及其他建基于其化学家身份和大屠杀幸存者经历的小说、散文和诗歌作品。1987年4月11日，莱维从他出生的房子坠落身亡。

作为奥斯维辛最重要的记录者和见证人，莱维的文字具有一种与其他受难者不同的特质，他秉持一种化学家的冷静与节制书写记忆，同时，又如菲利普·罗斯所说，“本该充满悼念情绪和无尽的绝望，相反却充满活力”。他的文字，让人们更理性地思考人性。

莱昂纳多·德·贝内代蒂（1898—1983），意大利籍犹太人，外科医生。1944年2月被纳粹关入奥斯维辛集中营，1945年1月被解救。“二战”后，他与集中营狱友普里莫·莱维共同写作了一本《奥斯维辛报告》（Auschwitz Report），详细揭露了集中营内的生活状况。

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