Research Catalog

Title

Survival in Auschwitz : if this is a man / Primo Levi ; translated from the Italian by Stuart Woolf.

Author

Levi, Primo, 1919-1987

Publication

New York : Orion Press ; [s.l.] : BN Pub., c2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

Woolf, S. J. (Stuart Joseph)

Description

205 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

This book describes Primo Levi's experiences in the concentration camp at Auschwitz during the Second World War. Levi, then a 25-year-old chemist, spent 10 months in Auschwitz before the camp was liberated by the Red Army. Of the 650 Italian Jews in his shipment, Levi was one of only twenty who left the camp alive. The average life expectancy of a new entry was three months. This truly amazing story offers a revealing glimpse into the realities of the Holocaust and its effects on our world. - Back cover.

Uniform Title

Se questo è un uomo. English

Alternative Title

• Se questo è un uomo.
• If this is a man

Subject

• Levi, Primo, 1919-1987 > Imprisonment
• Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
• 1939-1945
• Nazi concentration camp inmates
• World War, 1939-1945 > Personal narratives, Italian
• World War, 1939-1945 > Prisoners and prisons, German
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Italy > Personal narratives

Genre/Form

• Personal narratives
• Personal narratives – Italian

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The journey -- On the bottom -- Initiation -- Ka-Be -- Our nights -- The work -- A good day -- This side of good and evil -- The drowned and the saved -- Chemical examination -- The canto of Ulysses -- The events of the summer -- October 1944 -- Kraus -- Die drei Leute vom Labor -- The last one -- The story of ten days.

ISBN

• 9789650060480
• 9650060480

OCLC

• 707094896
• SCSB-12303925

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library