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The Black Hole of Auschwitz

Primo Levi, Marco Belpoliti (Editor), Sharon Wood (Translated by)
ISBN: 978-0-7456-3240-7
Hardcover
240 pages
December 2005, Polity
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Through the Looking Glass: Preface to the Italian Edition.

Note to the Texts.

PART I: THE BLACK HOLE OF AUSCHWITZ.

1. Deportees. Anniversary.

2. The Monument at Auschwitz.

3. ‘Arbeit Macht Frei’.

4. The Time of Swastikas.

5. Preface to the German Edition of If This is a Man.

6. Preface to the School Edition of the Truce.

7. Resistance in the Camps.

8. Preface to Y. Katzenelson’s The Song of the Murdered Jewish People.

9. Note to the Theatre Version of If This is a Man.

10. Preface to L.Poliakov’s Auschwitz.

11. To the Young: Preface to If This a Man.

12. A Past We Thought Would Never Return.

13. Preface to J. Presser’s The Night of the Girondins.

14. Films and Swastikas.

15. Letter to Latanzio: ‘Resign’.

16. Women to the Slaughter.

17. So That the SS do not Return.

18. It began with Kristallnacht.

19. Jean Améry, Philosopher and Suicide.

20. But We Were There.

21. Concentration Camp at Italy’s Door.

22. No Return to the Holocausts of the Past (Nazi.

Massacres, Crowds and the TV).

23. Images of Holocaust.

24. Europe in Hell.

25. Anne Frank, the Voice of History.

26. Seekers of Lies to Deny the Holocaust.

27. To the Visitor.

28. You Tell Me if This is Fortunate Jew.

29. The Pharaoh with the Swastika.

30. Preface to H. Langbein’s People in Auschwitz.

31. Why See These Images Again?.

32. Preface to R. Höss’s Commadant of Aushwitz.

33. The Black Hole of Auschwitz.

34. Preface to La vita offesa.

35. To Our Generation.

PART II: OTHER PEOPLE’S TRADES.

36. The Writer Who is Not a Writer.

37. Racial Intolerance.

38. Preface to L. Caglioti’s I due volti della chimica (The.

Two Faces of Chemistry).

39. We See No Other Adam in the Neighbourhood.

40. Horseshoe Nails.

41. Let’s See How Much has Come True.

42. Our First Ancestors were Not Animals.

43. Collectors of Torments.

44. Brute Force.

45. Note to Franz Kafka’s The Trial.

46. Asymmetry and Life.

47. Preface to Jews in Turin.

48. Itinerary of a Jewish Writer.

49. With the Key of Science.

50. Preface to The Jews of Eastern Europe.

51. What was it that Burned Up in Space?.

52. The Plague has No Frontiers.

53. The Community of Venice and its Ancient Cemetery.

54. The Philosopher-Engineer and his Forbidden Dreams.

55. Guest of Captain Nemo.

Index of Names.

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