Survival in Auschwitz :
the Nazi assault on humanity /
Primo Levi ; translated from the Italian by Stuart Woolf ; including "A conversation with Primo Levi by Philip Roth".

Description

Main Author

Levi, Primo, 1919-1987

Related Names

Roth, Philip.
Woolf, S. J. (Stuart Joseph)

Language(s)

English

Published

New York : Simon & Schuster, 1996.

Edition

1st Touchstone ed.

Subjects

Levi, Primo, > Levi, Primo, / 1919-1987
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Prisoners of war > Prisoners of war / Poland > Prisoners of war / Poland / Biography
Prisoners of war > Prisoners of war / Italy > Prisoners of war / Italy / Biography
World War, 1939-1945 > World War, 1939-1945 / Prisoners and prisons, German
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) / Italy > Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) / Italy / Personal narratives
World War, 1939-1945 > World War, 1939-1945 / Personal narratives, Italian
Autobiographies

Summary

In 1943, Primo Levi, a 25-year-old chemist and "Italian citizen of Jewish race," was arrested by Italian fascists and deported from his native Turin to Auschwitz. This is Levi's classic account of his ten months in the German death camp, a harrowing story of systematic cruelty and miraculous endurance. Remarkable for its simplicity, restraint, compassion, and even wit, Survival in Auschwitz remains a lasting testament to the indestructibility of the human spirit. Included in this new edition is an illuminating conversation between Philip Roth and Primo Levi never before published in book form.--From publisher description.

Note

"A Touchstone book."
Originally published: New York : Collier Books ; 1993.
"Originally appeared in English under the title: If this is a man"--T.p.verso.
Translation of: Se questo è un uomo.

Physical Description

187 p. ; 21 cm.

ISBN

0684826801

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