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Category Archives: Holocaust
The meaning of suffering
Years ago, I do not remember how many, I first read Primo Levi’s autobiographical account of his time as a prisoner in Auschwitz, If This Is A Man, and then of his tortuous return home to Italy, The Truce. These … Continue reading
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