Full Description: MILLU, LIANA. Smoke Over Birkenau. Reprint Edition. Northwestern University Press, Evanston: 1997. 197 pages. Softcover. Good condition. HOLOCAUST. An Italian-Jewish journalist and schoolteacher who joined the partisans in 1943, Liana Millu was arrested in 1944 and deported to Birkenau. The astonishing stories in this book tell of the women who lived and suffered alsongside her during her months there. They are stories of violence and tragedy, but also of resistance, of dreaming in the middle of a nightmare, of the endurance of the human spirit. Translated into English from the Italian by Lynne Sharon Schwartz. One of the most powerful European testimonies to come from the women's lager at Auschwitz-Birkenau. - Primo Levi
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