La verità concreta su Auschwitz

This article examines the Report on the Sanitary and Medical Organization of the Monowitz Concentration Camp for Jews (Auschwitz - Upper Silesia) written by Primo Levi in collaboration with the doctor Leonardo De Benedetti in 1945, immediately after being saved from the camp. The report, written at the request of the “Russian Command of the concentration camp for Italian ex-prisoners at Katowice”, would later be published in Italy, in a medical journal. It is Primo Levi’s first eyewitness account of Auschwitz, predating If This Is a Man.