Holocaust discussion

[Timothy Campbell]

Hello all,

	Could I return to the Holocaust thread of last week which I only
recently picked up in the digest?  Today I was reading a short biography
of Primo Levi (Mirna Cicioni's "Primo Levi: Bridges of Light" - a slight
book with a fine bibliography of Levi's lesser known and harder to find
interviews) and discovered that in 1952 Levi and another Auschwitz
survivor won a compensation court case against IG-Farben in Italy.  She
writes, "It was a political trial, because the two wanted to demonstrate
that firms which had collaborated with the Nazi regime were still thriving
after the war, and had not really paid for their involvement."   Yeah, I'm
sure it was a political trial, but has anyone heard of this trial, or for
that matter other cases against IG-Farben anywhere?  Surely someone on
this marvelous list has read something somewhere.

	Another poster from a week ago described Levi's "If this is a man"
as a restrained account of the Lager.  I agree but for a much less
restrained Levi, you might try "I Sommersi e i salvati" (the English is
The Drowned and the Saved).  And while I'm on Levi (reading him for a
weekly class in Italian lit), I should mention Levi's own account of the
zone in "The Reawakening", which recounts his odyssey from Auschwitz to
Torino via Odessa.  Wrenching.

	BTW, I really am enjoying this list, have been for eight months
now, lurking.  Just wanted to say so.