Ebook: Primo Levi: The Matter of a Life
Author: Ariella Lang Berel Lang
- Tags: Levi Primo, Jews -- Italy -- Biography, Holocaust survivors -- Italy -- Biography, Holocaust survivors, Jews, Italy, Levi Primo -- 1919-1987
- Series: Jewish Lives
- Year: 2014
- Publisher: Yale University Press
- City: New Haven
- Language: English
- pdf
In 1943, twenty-four-year-old Primo Levi had just begun a career in chemistry when, after joining a partisan group, he was captured by the Italian Fascist Militia and deported to Auschwitz. Of the 650 Italian Jews in his transport, he was one of only 24 who survived the eleven months before the camp's liberation. Upon returning to his native Turin, Levi resumed work as a chemist and was employed for thirty years by Read more...