In 1943, Primo Levi, a twenty-five-year-old chemist and âItalian citizen of Jewish race,â was arrested by the Italian Fascists and deported from his native Turin to Auschwitz. Levi was spared the gas chambers because his technical training was deemed useful for work in the I. G. Farben laboratories of Hitlerâs Third Reich. Survival in Auschwitz is Leviâs classic account of his ten months in the German death camp, a harrowing story of systematic cruelty and miraculous survival. Remarkable for its simplicity, restraint, compassion and even wit, Survival in Auschwitz remainsâforty years after its compositionâa lasting testament to the indestructible human spirit.
In 1943, Primo Levi, a twenty-five-year-old chemist and âItalian citizen of Jewish race,â was arrested by the Italian Fascists and deported from his native Turin to Auschwitz. Levi was spared the gas chambers because his technical training was deemed useful for work in the I. G. Farben laboratories of Hitlerâs Third Reich. Survival in Auschwitz is Leviâs classic account of his ten months in the German death camp, a harrowing story of systematic cruelty and miraculous survival. Remarkable for its simplicity, restraint, compassion and even wit, Survival in Auschwitz remainsâforty years after its compositionâa lasting testament to the indestructible human spirit.