From: Francisco Paulo Cipolla (cipolla@UFPR.BR)
Date: Mon Dec 18 2006 - 08:53:10 EST
So Rosdolsky might have known Primo Levi, who was also spared due to his knowledge of chemestry. Of all the books I read on the the topic Levis sequence seems to be the most profound in reflexion and analysis: "If that is man?" (original title in Italian: Se questo luomo?); "The saved and the drowned" (original title in Italian: I salvati e i sommersi);"The truce" (in Italian: La tregua). This last book was turned into a movie as well. I seems that a soccer game between the germans and the prisonners in 1944 mentioned by Levi triggered a recent book by Facchetti: "Bundesliga 1944" written and published in Italy. Paulo glevy@PRATT.EDU wrote: > Jurriaan: > > Thanks, that made gripping reading. What I can't understand is how he > made it out of the camps alive. According to the article, he was arrested > by the Gestapo for aiding Jews. That, of and in itself, often meant > immediate execution. And the following makes it clear that he already had > a long history as a revolutionary socialist. Didn't the Gestapo know who > they arrested? It's hard to believe that his skill as a carpenter (I > wonder if he had any real carpentry skills beforehand or whether he had to > fake it initially and learn *quickly* with the support and protection of > other prisoners) was enough to save him. > > In solidarity, Jerry > > Roman Rosdolsky - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia > <snip> > As a youth, Rosdolsky was a member of the Ukrainian socialist Drahomanov > Circles. He was drafted in the imperial army in 1915, and edited with > Roman Turiansky the journal Klyči in 1917. He was a founder of the > International Revolutionary Social Democracy (IRSD) and studied law in > Prague. He became a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party > of Eastern Galicia, representing its emigré organization 1921-1924 and a > leading publicist of the Vasylkivtsi faction of the Ukrainian Communists. > In 1925, he refused to condemn Trotsky and his Left Opposition, and was > later, at the end of the 1920s, expelled from the Communist Party. > > In 1926-1931, he was correspondent in Vienna of the Marx-Engels Institute > in Moscow, searching for archival materials. At that time, in 1927, he met > his wife Emily. When the labour movement in Austria suffered repression, > he emigrated in 1934 back to L'viv, where he worked at the university as > lecturer. He published the Trotskyist periodical Žittja i slovo > 1934-1938, and was arrested by the Gestapo in 1942, but survived > internment in the concentration camps of Auschwitz, Ravensbrück and > Oranienburg. <snip>
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