Auschwitz TestimoniesPrimo Levi (1919 87) was born and lived his entire life in or near Turin, with the exception of the years 1944 45, when he was captured as an anti Fascist partisan, deported to Auschwitz, and then released into war torn Europe. He was the author of such acclaimed works as If This is a Man, The Periodic Table and The Drowned and the Saved. Leonardo De Benedetti (1898 1983), also a native of Turin, was captured and deported to Auschwitz in the same year