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Primo Levi

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Primo Levi was brought to Auschwitz by a death train. On the death train he experience isolation, brutality among the Jewish people trapped aboard, and the beginning treatment of torture and inhumanity. Once off the death train, Primo was immediately sorted into a group of men that could work in the concentration camp.

Jews, such as Primo Levi, were forced to wear a yellow Jewish star of David patch on their clothing. This was one way the Nazis patrolled and sorted the Jews from non-Jews. If a Jew was caught not wearing the patch, they would be punished: a beating or death. The Jewish star now symbolizes Jewish anti-Semitism.

Primo Levi was an Italian national. At the time that he was caught by the Nazi party, he was participating in a poorly organized Italian militia. All of the militia members were apprehended and brought to Auschwitz. Most of Primo’s fellow Italians died due to ignorance about survival skills many Auschwitz captures learned. Primo makes reference to their demise in his infamous novel, Survival in Auschwitz.

This is a portrait recently taken of Primo Levi. Primo made his name by writing about his horrific experiences in the Auschwitz concentration camp. Primo returned to Italy and wrote several books depicting his experience. He died in 1987 when he accidently lost his balance and fell. Primo spent many years visiting school to teach the future generations about the Holocaust so that it would never happen again.

Primo Levi entered the jaws of Auschwitz when he was 24 years old. At the time, he worked for a manufacturing firm and spent a lot of time traveling to Hungary. Primo’s Italian Jewish family greatly valued reading and education – Primo’s literacy talents enabled him to chronicle his experiences both in and outside of the Nazi concentration camp, Auschwitz.

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The Reawakening is a novel about Primo Levi’s experiences after leaving Auschwitz.

Survival in Auschwitz is a novel that explicitly details life in Auschwtiz from the perspective of a Holocaust survivor – Primo Levi. Each chapter dives deep into one dimension of the Holocaust victim’s experience.

If this is a man……..