两位幸存者应苏联方面要求写成的集中营卫生医疗状况报告，另一人就是《休战》里面Levi给他做助手的医生。有很多后来的叙述不太关注的细节。（好吧，其实我把这书和俩人合作的另一本内容更多时间跨度更久的书弄混了，然而那本并没有电子版）

How do you rate a book like this??

An interesting, unemotional, clinical account of two prisoners in Auschwitz. Too short in my opinion, and filled with too many outsider notes "Reasons why to read this book, and why these men are commendable for surviving the Holocaust."
I am not saying that these men should not be recognized or remembered, but that I wish their own personal accounts had been more focused on instead of a 30+ page introduction and a 19 page glossary/summary/bibliography. The actual account from the book was only 48 pages, which would have been suffice without the lengthy introductions.
Still an interesting read.
Good for a one time read.

As the title suggests, this was originally written as a report that appeared in an Italian medical journal. Not only was it Levi’s first attempt to construct a meaningful narrative of what he had endured during the war, but it also represented one of the earlier examinations (outside the Nuremberg Trials) of conditions within the concentration camp system.

Tornar a Primo Levi sempre és un gaudi que aporta nous aspectes que no t'havies plantejat o reflexions que esfereixen, i més les de l'entrevista que recull el llibre. L'Informe que va coredactar permet veure, des d'un punt de vista força objectiu i mèdic, què eren els camps nazis.

It was an interesting, fact-filled book. Although a first hand account of the horror in and near Auschwitz, it is missing much of the emotion of any typically 'hollywood' movie. So in a sense, it is stripped of any hyperbole down to the bare essential details that made what happened there especially horrifying.

It was dry and historical, but the information was really interesting and I enjoyed it. It made me want to maybe look into other books by Primo Levi.

Very short read, but insightful. As a Jewish physician it was doubly perverse to read what cruelties occurred to the jewish people from a medical context. I found it odd that the camp administrators would obsess over sterility and sanitization for lice but not for typhus or other life threatening conditions- as these conditions could easily affect them as well as their prisoners. I also found it interesting to read the first literary work of Levi Primo as he began to develop his voice as an author. Dr. Benedetti's literary prose was less enthusiastic and more fact driven; this is very characteristic of medical writings. To be a physician in this post war period and to have read this report in a medical journal would have been absolutely astonishing. I hope that this report continues to shed light on the mistreatment of patients that continues even today in some parts of the world.

Very short at only 60 or so pages, along additional addenda. This was a report written for the Soviets after they liberated Auschwitz. As such, it's a piece of history in itself.

It was written by Dr Primo Levi, a chemist, and Dr Leonardo de Benedetti, a medical doctor. They met and became friends at Auschwitz as part of a the same transport of Italian Jews, and were made to slave at the Auschwitz III Monowitz concentration camp.

Levi had been treated in the makeshift hospital and de Benedetti's medical skills had been put to use there in the final weeks before the camp was liberated. The Soviets had asked them to provide a report on the conditions at Monowitz, and the report mainly focuses on the hygiene and medical treatment at the camp, such as it was. There are also some descriptions of their transport, arrival and selection of those fit for work and those who would immediately be sent to the gas chambers, and their living conditions and food.

Much of it seems to have been written by de Benedetti from a medical standpoint, describing the sorts of ailments which would be common and how they were treated, given the scarcity of medicine and equipment.

It's a report, it's dry, because it was not originally written to be published. Primo Levi went on to become the most well-known writers of those who survived Auschwitz. His close friendship with 'Nardo' de Benedetti went on after they left the camp and finally settled back in Italy a couple of streets away from each other, only separated by the death of Nardo in 1983. The end of this book contains a couple of beautiful tributes from Primo Levi to his friend and reminds you that after all the medical terminology and dry facts of this report, these were human beings who lived the horrors that those facts describe, who became lifelong and beloved friends.

Intriguing, but not as insightful as I'd imagined.

I can't rate this book, simply because it's a report about something awful.

I will say a few things though.

1. The introduction of this, and the praise and unnecessary talk about how Primo Levi is so much more important because he wrote more than his partner, who died earlier was fucked up. I mean even all of the quotes on the back were for Primo's OTHER WORKS.
2. Because this is a medical report a lot of the medical jargon was lost on me, and unfortunately the only parts that hit me in the face were about the gas chambers and the unusual punishments given by doctors and nurses. I mean what the actual hell?

Anyway, read this if you're interested in a more in depth, comprehensive look at what was going on away from the memoir side of things.

After being freed from Auschwitz in 1945, Primo Levi and his friend Dr. Leonardo de Benedetti wrote a report on the Auschwitz III-Monowitz camp for the Soviet military command in Katowice, Poland. The report was then published in Italy in 1946. It mostly focuses on the horrible medical treatment that the prisoners received. As Robert S.C. Gordon points out in the introduction, this account is valuable not only as an early source from Holocaust survivors but as a view into the development of Levi's powerful memoir, Survival in Auschwitz, and as well as his other works. This edition also contains two short, moving tributes that Levi wrote to Benedetti, who died in 1983, which help to illustrate another of Gordon's points:

Whatever its larger literary or historical import, then, Auschwitz Report is also a document of the extraordinary friendship between Primo and "Nardo," forged in Fossoli, Monowitz, and Katowice, and sustained for the rest of their lives. For most of forty years afterwards, they lived only a block apart in Turin. As Primo had supported Nardo through depression on their return, so Nardo would do the same during Primo's periodic lapses into depression (except for the last of these, in 1987, when Nardo was already dead).