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Primo Levi’s memoir chronicles his ten months as a 25‑year‑old chemist in Auschwitz during World War II. From a shipment of 650 Italian Jews, only twenty survived, illustrating the camp’s lethal conditions where a new arrival’s life expectancy was about three months. Levi’s account provides a stark, first‑hand perspective on the Holocaust, concentration‑camp life, and the profound impact of Nazi persecution on Italian Jews.
First publish date: 1705
Genre: War & Military Fiction/World War II Fiction
Authors: Primo Levi
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