Quo Fuit places 5 dated presences for Primo Levi across 3 places, from 1919 to 1987.
Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
Primo Michele Levi (31 July 1919 – 11 April 1987) was a Jewish Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor and writer.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
Every dot is a place Primo Levi is documented in, on a dated record. The interactive globe carries the full detail.
Where Primo Levi was documented, and when
1919year
Turinattested“Levi was born in 1919 in Turin, at Corso Re Umberto 75, into a liberal Jewish family.”source: Wikipedia: Primo Levi
December 1941month
Balangeroattested“In December 1941, he received an informal job offer from an Italian officer to work as a chemist at an asbestos mine in San Vittore.”source: Wikipedia: Primo Levi
21 January 1946exact date
Turinattested“On 21 January 1946, he started work at DUCO, a DuPont paint factory outside Turin.”source: Wikipedia: Primo Levi
1985year
United Statesattested“In 1985, he flew to the United States for a 20-day speaking tour.”source: Wikipedia: Primo Levi
11 April 1987exact date
Turinattested“Levi died on 11 April 1987 after a fall from the interior landing of his third-story apartment in Turin to the ground floor below.”source: Wikipedia: Primo Levi
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1925year
Turinmentioned“In 1925, he entered the primary school in Turin.”source: Wikipedia: Primo Levi
September 1930month
Royal Gymnasiummentioned“In September 1930, Levi entered the Royal Gymnasium a year ahead of normal entrance requirements.”source: Wikipedia: Primo Levi
August 1932month
Turinmentioned“In August 1932, following two years attendance at the Talmud Torah school in Turin to pick up the elements of doctrine and culture, he sang in the local synagogue for his Bar Mitzvah.”source: Wikipedia: Primo Levi
21 February 1944exact date
Auschwitz concentration campmentioned“On 21 February 1944, on the second of the transports, Levi and other inmates were transported in twelve cramped cattle trucks to Monowitz, one of the three main camps in the Auschwitz concentration camp complex.”source: Wikipedia: Primo Levi
21 February 1944exact date
Monowitzmentioned“On 21 February 1944, on the second of the transports, Levi and other inmates were transported in twelve cramped cattle trucks to Monowitz, one of the three main camps in the Auschwitz concentration camp complex.”source: Wikipedia: Primo Levi
27 January 1945exact date
Turinmentioned“Although liberated on 27 January 1945, Levi did not reach Turin until 19 October 1945.”source: Wikipedia: Primo Levi
1954year
Buchenwaldmentioned“In 1954, he visited Buchenwald to mark the ninth anniversary of the camp's liberation from the Nazis.”source: Wikipedia: Primo Levi
1963year
Turinmentioned“The long railway journey home to Turin took him on a circuitous route from Poland, through Belarus, Ukraine, Romania, Hungary, Austria, and Germanyan arduous journey described especially in his 1963 work The Trucenoting the millions of d…”source: Wikipedia: Primo Levi
1963year
Polandmentioned“The long railway journey home to Turin took him on a circuitous route from Poland, through Belarus, Ukraine, Romania, Hungary, Austria, and Germanyan arduous journey described especially in his 1963 work The Trucenoting the millions of d…”source: Wikipedia: Primo Levi
1963year
Belarusmentioned“The long railway journey home to Turin took him on a circuitous route from Poland, through Belarus, Ukraine, Romania, Hungary, Austria, and Germanyan arduous journey described especially in his 1963 work The Trucenoting the millions of d…”source: Wikipedia: Primo Levi
1979year
Fiat S.p.A.mentioned“The Wrench won the Strega Prize in 1979 and brought Levi a wider audience in Italy, though left-wing critics regretted that he did not describe the harsh working conditions on the assembly lines at Fiat.”source: Wikipedia: Primo Levi
1979year
Italymentioned“The Wrench won the Strega Prize in 1979 and brought Levi a wider audience in Italy, though left-wing critics regretted that he did not describe the harsh working conditions on the assembly lines at Fiat.”source: Wikipedia: Primo Levi
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explicitly dated record, attested a sentence that states the person was there,
mentioned a sentence that ties the person to the place without stating presence.
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