- Prisoners of war, Auschwitz (Concentration camp), Italian Personal narratives, German Prisoners and prisons
The author's survival in Auschwitz and his travels through Eastern Europe and Russia are the subjects of this memoir.
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- Author
- Primo Levi
- First published
- 1963
- Pages
- 398
- Publisher
- Time Warner Books UK, Penguin Random House, Dom Quixote
- Editions
- 19
- Language
- Portuguese, Italian, English
- ISBN
- 9780349139012
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- Prisoners of war
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Italian Personal narratives
- German Prisoners and prisons
- World War, 1939-1945
- Biography
- Levi, primo, 1919-1987
- World war, 1939-1945, prisoners and prisons, german
- World war, 1939-1945, personal narratives, italian
- Holocaust, jewish (1939-1945), personal narratives
- Authors, biography
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Primo Michele Levi (Turin, 31 July 1919- 11 April 1987) was an Italian Jewish chemist, writer, and Holocaust survivor. He was the author of several books, novels, collections of short stories, essays, and poems. He graduated in Chemistry from the University of Turin in 1941 and two years later joined the anti-fascist resistance. He was captured and deported to Auschwitz, where he worked as a slave in an industrial plant. After the camp was liberated by the Red Army in 1945 and after an odyssey through several Eastern European countries, he returned to Turin and published his first account of the extermination camps, *Se questo è un uomo* (*If This Is a Man* / US: *The Reawakening*). His late
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