Writer Primo Levi was deported to Auschwitz as a Jew in 1944. He was convinced of his imminent death.

A mason from the same region as him, around Turin, left him at the risk of his life a bowl of food, in a hiding place, every day, for six months. The mason died of alcoholism and tuberculosis at the age of 47, six years after the end of the war, as recounted by the historian Carlo Greppi in “A Man Without Words”