Survival
in Auschwitz: The Nazi Assault on Humanity
by Primo Levi
1996 reprint
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is the paperback
edition. The hardback
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Description
In
1943, Primo Levi, a twenty-five-year-old chemist
and "Italian citizen of Jewish race,"
was arrested by Italian fascists and deported
from his native Turin to Auschwitz. Survival
in Auschwitz is Levi's classic account of his
ten months in the German death camp, a harrowing
story of systematic cruelty and miraculous endurance.
Remarkable for its simplicity, restraint, compassion,
and even wit, Survival in Auschwitz remains
a lasting testament to the indestructibility
of the human spirit. Included in this new edition
is an illuminating conversation between Philip
Roth and Primo Levi never before published in
book form. |
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Meredith Tax, The Village Voice
More than anything else I've read or seen,
Levi's books helped me not only to grasp
the reality of genocide but to figure
out what it means for people like me who
grew up sheltered from the storm.
Ingram
Levi's haunting memoir about his ten months
in the German death camp Auschwitz is
an unforgettable chronicle of systematic
cruelty and miraculous survival. First
published in 1947, this bestselling work
now includes a new afterword--a fascinating,
in-depth conversation between Levi and
author Philip Roth.
Amazon.com
Survival in Auschwitz is a mostly straightforward
narrative, beginning with Primo Levi's
deportation from Turin, Italy, to the
concentration camp Auschwitz in Poland
in 1943. Levi, then a 25-year-old chemist,
spent 10 months in the camp. Even Levi's
most graphic descriptions of the horrors
he witnessed and endured there are marked
by a restraint and wit that not only gives
readers access to his experience, but
confronts them with it in stark ethical
and emotional terms:
"[A]t
dawn the barbed wire was full of children's
washing hung out in the wind to dry. Nor
did they forget the diapers, the toys,
the cushions and the hundred other small
things which mothers remember and which
children always need. Would you not do
the same? If you and your child were going
to be killed tomorrow, would you not give
him something to eat today?" --Michael
Joseph Gross |
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