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Primo Levi

Italy · Holocaust — survivor memoir

About

Italian chemist and writer who survived Auschwitz. His memoirs are among the most important.

Books in Database (2)

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If This Is a Man 1947 · 188 pages

Primo Levi's account of his year in Auschwitz — a forensic examination of what the camp did to human identity.

Memoir
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The Drowned and the Saved 1986 · 203 pages

Levi's final book — essays on memory, shame, and the grey zone of complicity in the camps, written forty years after Auschwitz.

Memoir

Events Covered

1941 The Holocaust