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(HOLOCAUST). LIANA MILLU. Il Fumo di Birkenau. FIRST EDITION. Opening blank signed by the author. Text in Italian. pp. 237, (1). Printed wrappers with original color pictorial dust-jacket. 8vo. Milan, Raimondi for La Prora, 1947.     Collection of six short stories, each center on the experiences of a different Jewish woman, each from a different country, each desperately trying to survive under the harrowing torments of the brutal regime of Auschwitz.      One of very few Holocaust testimonies that focus exclusively on Women’s experiences.          Born in Pisa, Liana Millu (1914-2005) was a Jewish-Italian journalist, World War II resistance fighter and Holocaust survivor (by way of the Fossoli transit camp, Auschwitz and Ravensbrück).     See https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liana_Millu (Italian) .