Auschwitz survivor Bruno Piazza wrote in 1945 one of the first Memoirs on the life at the death camp. Published posthumously in 1956 by Feltrinelli under the title (Perche gli altri dimenticano: un italiano ad Auschwitz), the book is a lucid denunciation of the mass killing of Jews in the gas chambers at Birkenau and of the unbearable living conditions of the deportees. Lawyer and journalist Bruno Piazza (1889-1946) was arrested in Trieste on July 13, 1944 on charges of anti-fascism, anti-Nazism and belonging to the Jewish race. Led to the Risiera of San Sabba, after a few days he was transferred to the Coroneo prison in Trieste. On 30 July 1944, it was loaded on a convoy to Auschwitz where he arrived three days later; he received the number 190712 and was ranked among the political prisoners. For this reason, contrary to what happened to all Jews over 50 years, he was not eliminated at his arrival. Selected to die at the infirmary, on September 19, 1944, he spent a whole day with 800 people crammed into the gas chamber waiting to die. At the very last minute his name was called as part of a list of eleven people who had come out as political prisoners or people of mixed race. Back to the infirmary, he managed to survive until the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau by the Soviet Army on January 27, 1945. He was reunited to his wife and children in Trieste before he died of a heart attack in 1946. < IF YOU LIKE THE POST, YOU ARE KINDLY INVITED TO SHARE IT WITH YOUR FRIENDS AND GROUPS. THANK YOU ! >
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