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Rai5 recently broadcast a documentary dedicated to Primo Levi during the 30th anniversary of his death, and in this documentary is a story that has been resumed also by Sun 24 Hours.
Monday 25 December 2017 4 minutes reading time
Levi was a great mountain lover and was right in the valleys of the valley which was captured by the fascists, having only the blame of being a Jew on December 13, 1943 in the village of Amay, on the slope to St. Vincent of the Col de Joux Another side leads to the Val d'Ayas. Levi was also captured by two of his companions. The rest of the story of the great great writer is known: he was deported to Auschwitz, escaped to the Nazi extermination camp and returned adventurously to Italy and later testified directly to his terrible experience in the book If this is a man.
The story that had never been told was that of the grandson of the hotel owners Ristoro di Amay where Levi stayed, Yves Francisco, then 18-year-old carpenter and nowadays 93th direct witness of his own story. After Levi's arrest, the villagers, including Yves, were put on the wall by the Fascists who threatened to shoot them even if they were not right to do so because none of the people were armed. In the end, Yves was released and decided to escape to Switzerland deserting the call for arms of the Republic of Salo.
Along with Czechoslovakia and an Alpine captain, the young carpenter had already passed a valley, avoiding the Cervinia-Plateau Rosa cable car that was guarded by the Nazi-fascists, but suddenly he realized that crossing a section of the glacier path would need Of the skis and remembered that Primo Levi had brought his skis to the Ristoro and who obviously had stayed there after the arrest of the future writer. Then Yves went back, took Levi's skis and after a day's walk arrived in Switzerland, then, in the end of the war, he returned to the Valle d'Aosta always with the skis he left where he had taken them, and then, in one day Not specified, Levi legitimately resumed.
Here is the link of the Rai5 documentary dedicated to the great writer of Turin
http://www.raiplay.it/video/2017/04/GLI-SCI-DI-PRIMO-LEVI-3ca3ce67-5cd1-410f-83a1-af6af3f3e131.html
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