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"Un mare di fango, una pianura di fango. Una pazzia gelida, buia, fangosa. Una dimensione dove nulla vi è di umano, che ha assorbito perfino i propri creatori." Un manoscritto ritrovato. Pagine battute a macchina, conservate per quasi mezzo secolo. Dieci anni dopo il ritorno alla vita, Piera Sonnino ha trovato il coraggio, la misura, la forza per sublimare in racconto la tragedia della deportazione e dello sterminio di tutta la sua famiglia - i genitori, i tre fratelli e le due sorelle - nei campi di concentramento nazisti. Pagine straordinarie per forza di scrittura, per la capacità di restituire l'accerchiamento quotidiano e metodico, l'erosione della libertà e della dignità umana subita dagli ebrei italiani dopo le leggi razziali, fino alla catastrofe finale di Auschwitz. La forza della testimonianza si solleva dal fango dell'oblio, il diario privato si fa voce universale e riesce a dare un nome a quanto non può essere nominato. La memoria, attraverso la parola, strappa qualcosa al gorgo della dissoluzione e del male. Prefazione di Enrico Deaglio.
- ISBN: 8842826898
- Casa Editrice: Il Saggiatore
- Pagine: 122
- Data di uscita: 16-01-2020
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Italy is my adopted country and it sometimes pains me that it was allied to the Nazis - usually this happens when the subject of the war is raised and the discomfort of my Italian friends becomes palpable. It’s a legacy they still live with. On the other hand all of us from countries that weren’t al Leggi tutto
As I understand it, the woman who wrote this did so not long after the events happened, but she wrote it for her family's use and knowledge. According to the afterward, they found this manuscript and published it AS-IS. The issue here for the reader is that this story was not sold to move anyone in
I quite liked this book. Of course it tells the story of a family who was taken from their home to the concentration camps and of the survival of one member of the family. What I especially enjoyed was the epilogues explaining the significance of the Italian people in hiding Jews and that this count Leggi tutto
This book is unlike any other account. It is written by a mom to her daughters as a matter of family record. Also included are overviews describing the historical background of Italian Jews and the culture in which they lived. Extremely emotional. Excellent. Contains a reading list for further study Leggi tutto
A very short but moving account a woman wrote of her experience of the Holocaust for her daughters. It was published after her death because her daughters felt that her story had a lot to add to the understanding of that experience. The prologue, epilogue and afterword of this book were all very go
I gave 5 stars because I find incredible that Piera could write this book in such an impeccable style and with no grammar mistakes. I cried while she described her sister death. These events really happened. How could she survive that? How could she survive the rest of her life with these atrocities Leggi tutto
Pierra Sonino's memoir of her family's experiences as Jews in Italy in WWII are both matter-of-fact and deeply searing, especially when filtered through the lens of the afterword by Mary Doria Russell. Italy tended to cling tightlyn to its Jews, the result of generations of integration, intermarriag Leggi tutto
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