A Man of Few Words (eBook)

The Bricklayer of Auschwitz Who Saved Primo Levi

Carlo Greppi (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
256 Seiten
The Westbourne Press (Verlag)
978-1-908906-62-5 (ISBN)

Infos

'Nobody knows how much I owe that man,' Primo Levi said of the bricklayer who saved his life at Auschwitz-Birkenau. For six months, Lorenzo Perrone risked his own life to smuggle food, letters and clothing to prisoners. Without Perrone, Levi could not have survived and the world would have been deprived of his writing.


In A Man of Few Words, Carlo Greppi pieces together the life of Perrone, a near destitute labourer with little formal education. Despite their stark differences, Levi and Perrone's friendship continued until Perrone's tragic death. Levi never forgot Perrone. He tried persistently to preserve the memory of this man of few words who had saved his life, but who left few traces of his own behind.


Compassionate, worldly and prescient, Greppi brings to light a universal story about an individual who kept hope alive in one of the darkest times and places known to man.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.1.2025
• Übersetzer: Howard Curtis
• Zusatzinfo: 17 b&w images
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Schlagworte: Allied troops • allies • Anti-Nazi Resistance • Auschwitz • Bombing • bricklayer • Builder • concentration camps • forced labour • Fossano • Ghetto • Ghetto uprisings • hard-working • Hitler • Holocaust • Holocaust survivors • Human Rights • Jewish • labourer • Lorenzo Perrone • Nazi • Occupation • Partisan • Partisans • Piedmont • Primo Levi • resistance • Resistance Fighters • Righteous Among Nations • Slave • Starvation • The Blitz • Underground Movement • volunteer worker • Warsaw • Working-class • World War II
• ISBN-10: 1-908906-62-6 / 1908906626
• ISBN-13: 978-1-908906-62-5 / 9781908906625