Ivan Lefkovits

With my memory, I live…

 

 

"How can I describe all of this?" asks Peter Lebovic at the beginning of his "Memories from the longest year of my life", which took him to Auschwitz, the Warsaw Ghetto and Dachau in 1944. "How can you describe hunger, humiliation, beatings, fear, dirt, all the cruelty, the whole atmosphere?"

In this project, 15 survivors of the Holocaust remember their time in German concentration camps, their survival, their continued life in Switzerland and elsewhere, each one for themselves, their own story and yet together.

The result is a unique documentation of the last witnesses of the Holocaust.

Gerhard Richter designed the covers of the 15 booklets with excerpts from his "Birkenau" pictures.

Ivan Lefkovits

History of the Basel Institute for Immunology

 

 

By the early seventies of the 20th century, the Basel institute for Immunology had become one of the largest - and certainly the most prominent - immunology institutes in the world, its lean structure was highly successful, and the quality of the research and its reputation remained outstandingly high throughout the three decades it existed.

This book describes the institute's history from its conception and the laying of the foundation stone in 1969 by the pharmaceutical company Roche to the triumph of three.

Nobel Prizes (1984 and 1987) for Niels K. Jerne, Georges Köhler and Susumu Tonegawa. Can all this be portrayed to make the layman understand it and the scientist relish it?

Indeed, the book succeeds in tuning in to what fascinates students, advanced researchers and scientists, historians, policy makers and philanthropists alike. The natrative reveals many aspects of the institute's life and also describes all its research and achieverents. Immunologists at every level, from beginners to old hands, will find something of interest to them in this history, and some readers will even make use of the huge database (documents, pictures and films) linked to the book by hundreds of OR codes.

Elisabeth Sommer-Lefkovits

Are you here in this hell, too?

 

 

It is a harrowing and poignant memoir of survival during the Holocaust. Through vivid and deeply personal storytelling, Lefkovits recounts her experience as a young girl enduring the atrocities of Auschwitz-Birkenau. The book not only sheds light on the unimaginable suffering of life in a concentration camp but also highlights moments of human connection, resilience, and the will to survive.