D'Eramo, Luce, 1925-2001

LC control no.	n 79060513
Descriptive conventions	rda
LC classification	PQ4864.E685
Personal name heading	D'Eramo, Luce, 1925-2001 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Eramo, Luce D', 1925-2001 Mangione, Lucette, 1925-2001
Birth date	1925-06-17
Death date	2001-03-06
Place of birth	Reims (France)
Place of death	Rome (Italy)
Found in	Author's L'opera di Ignazio Silone, 1971. Si prega di non disturbare, 1995: t.p. (Luce d'Eramo) jkt. (b. 1925, Reims (France) of Italian parents; essayist, short story writer, novelist) Un'estate difficile, 2001: (Luce d'Eramo) jkt. (d. 2001) Information from 678 field, converted May 3, 2014 (b. June 17) Ignazio Silone, ©2014: folded page 3 of cover (Luce d'Eramo (Reims, 1925-Roma, 2001), pseudonimo di Lucette Mangione) Italian Wikipedia, 15 January 2016 (Luce d'Eramo, pseudonimo di Lucette Mangione (Reims, 17 giugno 1925-Roma, 6 marzo 2001), è stata una scrittrice italiana.) <https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luce_d'Eramo> Deviation, 2018: ECIP t.p. (Luce d'Eramo) data view (Luce d'Eramo (née Lucette Mangione) was born in Reims, France. The daughter of Italian parents, she lived in France until the age of fourteen, when her family returned to Italy in 1938. From a bourgeois fascist family (her father was a government official in the Republic of Salò and her mother had served as a voluntary secretary of the Italian Fascio in Paris), she enrolled in the Faculty of Letters at the Sapienza University of Rome and was a member of GUF (Association of Fascist Students); at age eighteen, rendered uncertain by the collapse of fascism and her ideals, she left home to volunteer in the German labor camps (Lagers) to disprove what she believed were lies being told about Nazi-Fascism, and to determine the truth firsthand. The encounter changed her, leading to a desire to shed her identity as the privileged daughter of a fascist bureaucrat; discarding her documents, she voluntarily slipped into a group of deportees being sent to Dachau, from which she escaped in October 1944. These experiences, narrated in the book, culminate with a devastating accident on February 27, 1945, in Mainz: while helping to rescue the wounded buried under the rubble of a bombed building, a wall collapsed on D'Eramo, leaving her permanently paralyzed. In 1946 she married Pacifico d'Eramo and they moved to Rome; their son, Marco, was born in 1947; the marriage ended in separation years later; she earned a PhD (wrote her thesis on Kant))