- Auschwitz (Concentration camp), World War, 1939-1945, Italian Personal narratives, German Prisoners and prisons
This book describes Primo Levi's experiences in the concentration camp at Auschwitz during the Second World War. Levi, then a 25-year-old chemist, spent 10 months in Auschwitz before the camp was liberated by the Red Army. Of the 650 Italian Jews in his shipment, Levi was one of only twenty who left the camp alive. The average life expectancy of a new entry was three months. This truly amazing story offers a revealing glimpse into the realities of the Holocaust and its effects on our world. - Back cover.
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- Author
- Primo Levi
- First published
- 1947
- Pages
- 206
- Publisher
- Orion Press, Tol Pegae, J.M. Meulenhoff
- Editions
- 112
- Language
- Spanish, roh, Polish, alb
- ISBN
- 9788499422886
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“I WAS captured by the Fascist Militia on 13 December 1943.”
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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