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Survival in Auschwitz 

The Nazi Assault on Humanity 

by

Primo Levi

Survival in Auschwitz: The Nazi Assault on Humanity

(1961)
A non fiction book by

Primo Levi

 

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





In 1943, Primo Levi, a twenty-five-year-old chemist and "Italian citizen of Jewish race," was arrested by Italian fascists and deported from his native Turin to Auschwitz. Survival in Auschwitz 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.
 
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Hardback Editions

June 2008 : Library Binding
Cover of ISBN: 1439506892Title: Survival in Auschwitz: The Nazi Assault on Humanity
Author(s): Primo Levi
ISBN: 1-4395-0689-2 / 978-1-4395-0689-9
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January 1994 : Board book
Cover of ISBN: 0020291922Title: Survival in Auschwitz: The Nazi Assault on Humanity
Author(s): Primo Levi, Stuart Woolf
ISBN: 0-02-029192-2 / 978-0-02-029192-3 (USA edition)
Publisher: Prentice Hall & IBD
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1986 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 0671605410Title: Survival in Auschwitz and The Reawakening: Two Memoirs
Author(s): Primo Levi
ISBN: 0-671-60541-0 / 978-0-671-60541-4 (USA edition)
Publisher: Summit Books
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1965 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: B000RMSOX6Title: Survival in Auschwitz
Author(s): Primo Levi
Publisher: Summit Books
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Paperback Editions

September 1996 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0684826801Title: Survival In Auschwitz
Author(s): Primo Levi
ISBN: 0-684-82680-1 / 978-0-684-82680-6 (USA edition)
Publisher: Touchstone
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1995 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: B001D72ZVQTitle: Survival in Auschwitz: The Nazi Assault on Humanity
Author(s): Primo Levi
Publisher: Touchstone Books
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September 1993 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0020343108Title: Survival in Auschwitz
Author(s): Primo Levi
ISBN: 0-02-034310-8 / 978-0-02-034310-3 (USA edition)
Publisher: Collier Books
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1971 : Mass Market Paperback
Cover of ISBN: B000WBE3FUTitle: Survival in Auschwitz
Author(s): Primo Levi
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1969 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: B000RK5FW6Title: Survival in Auschwitz
Author(s): Primo Levi
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October 1961 : Mass Market Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0020343000Title: Survival in Auschwitz: The Nazi Assault on Humanity
Author(s): Primo Levi
ISBN: 0-02-034300-0 / 978-0-02-034300-4 (USA edition)
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1971 : Unknown
Cover of ISBN: B0007FZN78Title: Survival in Auschwitz,: The Nazi assault on humanity
Author(s): Primo Levi
Publisher: Collier
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1966 : Unknown
Cover of ISBN: B0007HAIGMTitle: Survival in Auschwitz: The Nazi assault on humanity
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1961 : Unknown
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