Every semester we read Primo Levi’s Survival in Auschwitz (If This Is a Man). No doubt it is a masterpiece, not only as a Holocaust testimony but in the canon of Western literature.

Why Primo Levi Survives His will to bear witness, and record the hellish particularity of the Holocaust, helped save his life in Auschwitz. It also inspired the writing he will be remembered for.

After his liberation from Auschwitz, Italian writer and scientist Primo Levi observed, “To destroy a man is difficult, almost as difficult as to create one. It has not been easy or quick, but ...

Primo Levi. Picryl. I find these words, this sentiment, playing in my mind as I read Boochani’s writings. Like Levi, Boochani is a profound writer who testifies from the camp about what he has ...

Primo Levi's The Periodic Table - Primo Levi is a prisoner in Auschwitz working in a chemistry lab, Doktor Muller is the man who oversees him - BBC Sounds ...

The Italian survivor, Primo Levi, wrote his Auschwitz memoir If This Is A Man immediately after the war. He had been one of a few thousand still at Auschwitz when Soviet troops arrived on 27 ...

Crystallizing Legacy of Auschwitz Survivor. Ben Brantley reviews one-man play Primo, National Theater of Great Britain production based on Primo Levi's memoir If This Is a Man, directed by Richard ...

Throughout the 1990’s I taught Western Civilization at Cooper Union in NYC. Every semester we read Primo Levi’s Survival in Auschwitz (If This Is a Man). No doubt it is a masterpiece, not only ...