Period 1947–61 Language Italian Genre Autobiography, essay | Nationality Jewish-Italian Name Leonardo Benedetti | |
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Died October 16, 1983, Turin, Italy | ||
Occupation Writer, medical doctor | ||
Leonardo de Benedetti (born September 15, 1898 in Turin, Italy; died October 16, 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.
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