Lorenzo Perrone

Lorenzo Perrone (12 September 1904–30 April 1952) born in Fossano, Italy, was an Italian mason who was transferred by his company to work at the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944. There he met and befriended Jewish-Italian prisoner Primo Levi for whom he provided food and other assistance. After the war, he struggled to cope with what he had witnessed in Auschwitz and became an alcoholic, eventually dying of tuberculosis in 1952.

Levi credited Perrone with saving his life and named both of his children after him. Additionally, Levi wrote about Perrone in his books, including ''If This Is A Man'' (1947) and ''Moments of Reprieve'' (1981). Perrone has been recognized as one of the Righteous among the Nations by Yad Vashem, and ''Un uomo di poche parole,'' a biography about him, was published in 2023. Provided by Wikipedia