Leonardo de Benedetti
Leonardo De Benedetti | |
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Born | Turin, Italy | 15 September 1898
Died | 16 October 1983 Turin, Italy | (aged 85)
Occupation | Writer, medical doctor |
Language | Italian |
Nationality | Italian |
Education | Degree in medicine |
Alma mater | University of Turin |
Period | 1947–61 |
Genre | Autobiography, essay |
Spouse | Jolanda De Benedetti, born Jolanda De Benedetti |
Leonardo de Benedetti (born 15 September 1898 in Turin, Italy; died 16 October 1983) was an Italian Jew and physician who was interned in the Auschwitz concentration camp from February 1944 until its liberation in January 1945. After the end of the Second World War he and fellow inmate Primo Levi wrote Auschwitz Report, a factual report of conditions inside the camp.
References[]
- Segre, Anna (2008), Un coraggio silenzioso. Leonardo De Benedetti, medico, sopravvissuto ad Auschwitz (in Italian), Torino: Zamorani
- Gordon, Robert (2006-09-22). "Inside the Nazis' most notorious death camp". The Independent. Retrieved 2008-07-12.
External link[]
- Media related to Leonardo De Benedetti at Wikimedia Commons
Categories:
- 20th-century Italian Jews
- The Holocaust in Italy
- Holocaust historiography
- Auschwitz concentration camp survivors
- 1898 births
- 1983 deaths
- Italian writer stubs
- World War II biography stubs
- Holocaust stubs