In The Truce, Primo Levi describes a cruelly protracted train journey, following the liberation of Auschwitz, from Krakow to a transit camp at Katowice in Upper Silesia. When the train makes one of many unexplained stops, at a place called Trzebinia, Levi gets off to stretch his legs. Soon he is surrounded by a group of curious locals, on whom he unburdens, in a torrent of words, 'those so recent experiences of mine, of Auschwitz nearby'.
You can read the rest of my review of three books by Primo Levi in the new issue of Democratiya.