On the occasion of Giorno della memoria 2024 (International Holocaust Remembrance Day), literary scholar Gabriella Romani in conversation with director Fabio Finotti presents Lost Bread by Edith Bruck, which she translated with David Yanoff. The Italian original, Il pane perduto (2021), was a finalist for the prestigious Premio Strega. Born in Hungary, Ms. Bruck was deported to Auschwitz in 1944 and survived with her sister.

After living in Israel, she moved to Italy in 1954. Bruck began writing her memories of the camp in Italian, a language she learned as an adult that she described as the “Chinese wall” that gave her freedom. Her first book, Chi ti ama così (1959), became a classic of Holocaust literature. Bruck shared with Primo Levi the experience of the camp and that public life in Italy.