The Memorial of the Italian deportees, made by great Italian intellectuals, with architectural design by Lodovico Belgioioso, was installed at Auschwitz in 1979 in Block 21. The artwork, a long spiral 40 meters with paintings by Pupino Samonà, music by Luigi Nono, words of Primo Levi, director of installation by Nelo Risi, was intended to represent the memory of all deportees.