Liana Millu
Liana Millu (born Millul; Pisa, 21 December 1914 – 6 February 2005)[1] was a Jewish-Italian journalist, World War II resistance fighter and Holocaust survivor. She is best known for her 1947 autobiography Smoke over Birkenau, translated to English as Smoke over Birkenau.
Biography
[edit]Millu was raised by her grandparents, and spent most of her life in Genoa. Her surname at birth was Millul, but she later changed it to Millu for her pseudonym.[2] She worked as a journalist for Il Telegrafo and schoolteacher.
In 1943, Millu joined the Italian partisans. She was arrested in 1944 and deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland.
After the war, Millu returned to Italy and became an author. Her work is included in the Italian anthology, Twentieth-Century Ligurian Writers.[3]
Works
[edit]- Smoke over Birkenau (translated by novelist Lynne Sharon Schwartz, who won the 1991 PEN Renato Poggioli translation award; 1994) – ISBN 0-8101-1569-7
- The Bridges of Schwerin (novel), winner of the 1978 Viareggio Prize
- Josephia's Shirt (collection of stories)
- From Liguria to the Extermination Camps (non-fiction)
References
[edit]- ^ Neal, Stephan D. Yada-Mc (2018-07-13). 50 Women against Hitler: Female resistance fighters in World War II. BoD – Books on Demand. ISBN 9783752825718.
- ^ "Millul, Liana - CDEC - Centro di Documentazione Ebraica - Digital Library". digital-library.cdec.it. Retrieved 2020-12-01.
- ^ Millu, Liana (1991). Smoke Over Birkenau. Jewish Publication Society. p. 211. ISBN 9780827603981.
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See also
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- 1914 births
- 2005 deaths
- 20th-century Italian Jews
- Italian memoirists
- Italian resistance movement members
- Jews in the Italian resistance
- Jewish writers
- Auschwitz concentration camp survivors
- Women memoirists
- Italian women novelists
- Fossoli camp survivors
- 20th-century Italian novelists
- 20th-century Italian women writers
- Jewish women writers
- Jewish female partisans
- 20th-century memoirists
- Writers from Genoa