Primo Levi's letters to German readers on display in Turin

For the first time, an entire exhibition is dedicated to Primo Levi as a letter writer. 'Giro di posta' at Palazzo Madama in Turin marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz on January 27, Holocaust Remembrance Day. The show features over 500 largely unpublished letters exchanged between Levi and his German correspondents—readers of 'If This Is a Man', friends, intellectuals, and even former Nazis—inviting them to reflect on Nazi Germany's atrocities. No original letters survive; the exhibition presents digital reproductions. The correspondence spans 1959 to 1986 and will be published in open-access bilingual Italian-English format on the portal levinet.eu by 2027, coordinated by Professor Martina Mengoni of the University of Ferrara as part of the European LeviNeT project funded by the European Research Council. The exhibition is also the first step toward creating a permanent physical space dedicated to Levi within Turin's new Civic Library, expected to open at the end of 2026.