The writer and the bricklayer: How Primo Levi survived Auschwitz
“Nobody knows how much I owe that man,” Primo Levi said of Lorenzo Perrone, the Italian compatriot who saved his life at Auschwitz
Primo Levi’s If This is a Man is a powerful account of survival in a Nazi concentration camp. Levi never forgot the Italian mason whose bravery and self-sacrifice saved his life
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