If This Is a Man
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If This Is a Man is a memoir by Jewish-Italian writer Primo Levi, first published in 1947. It describes his arrest as a member of the Italian anti-fascist resistance during the Second World War, and h
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Primo Levi
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Primo Michele Levi was a Jewish Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor and writer. He was the author of several books, collections of short stories, essays, poems and one novel. His best-known
If This Is a Man
…If This Is a Man (Italian: Se questo è un uomo ; United States title: Survival in Auschwitz) is a memoir by Jewish-Italian writer Primo Levi, first published in 1947. It describes his arrest as a member of the Italian anti-fascist resistance during the Second World War, and his incarceration…
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IG Farben factory in Monowitz (near Auschwitz) 1941 50°02′10″N 19°16′32″E / 50.036094°N 19.275534°E / 50.036094; 19.275534 (Site of Buna Werke plant approximately 10km or 6.2 miles from Auschwitz)
Levi, 1950s
Rudolf Höss immediately before being hanged