There Is a Place on Earth: A Woman in Birkenau

Giuliana Tedeschi Brunelli was born on April 9, 1914 in Milan, Italy. She educated in the middle-class milieu of Turin. She completed an honors degree in lingusitics as a student of the noted linguist Benvenuto Terracini and worked as a teacher. She was arrested after being married with 2 small children on April 5, 1944. She was taken long with her husband and mother-in-law. Her 2 daughters survived in hiding while being cared for by her Roman Catholic housekeeper. In Auschwitz, both Giuliana’s husband and mother-in-law were killed. Once Giuliana returned from the camp, she worked as a teacher and was the author of school texts for the study of Latin and Greek. She went on to write one of the first memoirs of camp experience, published in 1946. Her work has almost no reference to life before being deported, which was unusual. She uses a lot of sensory in her memoir, so readers can picture the atrocities of what was happening. She died on June 28, 2010 in Turin, Italy, which is where she lived for most of her life before and after the war.