Survival in Auschwitz Study Guide consists of approx. 46 pages of summaries and analysis on Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi. Browse the literature study guide below:
Primo Levi, the author and subject of the autobiography, was arrested in December, 1943. An anti-Fascist Italian Jew, he was sent to a prison camp in Italy and then deported to Auschwitz in February, 1944. Levi survived Auschwitz largely because by 1944, the Nazis had suspended full-effort genocide in preference to enforced convict labor. When the camp was evacuated in January, 1945, Levi remained behind, a victim of Scarlet Fever. After surviving for ten days in the abandoned and rapidly deteriorating camp, he was liberated by the arriving Soviet Army. After spending several months in a Soviet camp for former concentration camp inmates, Levi eventually returned to his home of Turin in October of 1945. (read more)
