On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Primo Levi’s birth in 2019 this volume intends to pay a tribute to the millions of Holocaust victims like Levi, as well as others such as Jean Améry, Aharon Appelfeld, Edith Bruck, Charlotte Delbo, Primo Levi, David Rousset, Jorge Semprún, Ernst Wiechert, Elie Wiesel and Simon Wiesenthal, among others. On the other hand, 2018, at the beginning of which I started to prepare this special issue, marked the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I, one of the most devastating 20th century massacres. The year 2018 also marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, a Gulag survivor and major writer. This volume, entitled “Literature and Genocide,” also aims to pay a tribute not only to him but also to the millions of people who, also like Georgy Demidov and Varlam Shalamov, to cite just two more names, suffered the hardships of the Gulag ordeal. Gustavo Sánchez Canales