num_pages: 224
description: Five years after her return home from Auschwitz, Piera Sonnino found the courage to tell the story of the extermination of her parents, three brothers, and two sisters by the Nazis. Discovered one year ago in Italy and never before published in English, this poignant and extraordinarily well-written account is strikingly accurate in bringing to life the methodical and relentless erosion of the freedoms and human dignity of the Italian Jews, from Mussolini's racial laws of 1938 to the institutionalized horror of Auschwitz. Through Sonnino's words, memory has the power to disarm these unspeakable evils.
language: English
title: This Has Happened: An Italian Family in Auschwitz
titlecomplete: This Has Happened: An Italian Family in Auschwitz
genres: Holocaust, Biography, History, Jewish, World War II, Italy, War, Italian Literature, Nonfiction, Memoir
ratings_count: 337
places: Auschwitz
publisher: St. Martin's Press