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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. I read this book after a visit to Auschwitz. What an amazing story of what it took to survive that death factory! It is extremely well-written and easy to read, although "easy to read" is probably an inappropriate term for such a disturbing subject. Learning more about what happened in the Nazi death camps is important for everyone, and this book is an excellent window on life in Auschwitz.  lynneinfla | Oct 13, 2009 |  touching, sober and detailed account of Levi's twelve months at Auschwitz. Small and incomprehensibly large things are both observed with intelligence and compassion. Highly recommended. (  ) stefano | Aug 27, 2009 | kahlee2000 | Aug 7, 2009 | Fundamentally chilling. A memoir of inhumanity exercised deliberately as nazi state policy. Everyone is damned even the survivors. As far as history goes this is an important book that should be placed on curricula of 20th century history. It is a testimonial narrative and as such warrants attention. (  ) cdnindexer | Jul 13, 2009 | http://nwhyte.livejournal.com/1253555... A tough but necessary read. Levi was one of the lucky ones: not killed immediately on arrival at Auschwitz; he was then too ill to be evacuated with most of the remaining prisoners when the camp was abandoned, but healthy enough to survive the ten days until the Russians arrived. In between he gives an unforgettable picture of life in unspeakable conditions, where the prisoner's brutalised consciousness revolves around theft and the impossibility of personal hygiene, as something to focus on other than the crematorium chimneys in the next compound. It's a very short book but packs a powerful punch. (And it is a shame that the translators abandoned the original title, Se questo è un uomo / If This Is A Man.) (  ) nwhyte | Jun 24, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com (ISBN 0684826801, Paperback)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(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:53 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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