Survival In Auschwitz
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This is an incredible book of survival and one man's will to do it.
"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. 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."
A must read...
"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. 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."
A must read...
I'm not sure what my (morbid?) facination is with Concentration Camp survivor's stores but I enjoy reading them and lamost feel drawn to them.
Whatever the reason, they remain compelling stories of the tremendous cruelty that lays under the surface of ordinary people, for while those in control may have bee evil demoniclly possessed monsters, the day to day work had to be carried out by ordinary people. At the same time they are equally compelling tales of heroism and survival in the face of unimaginable odds and reveal the strength that lies beneath the surface of so many people.
If only they could reveal how to get that strength out before that ability to be cruel kicked in.
In any event, the delly I took in registering the arrrival of this book is a testament only to my sloppiness these days and not to my interest in sitting down and absorbing this first person account of those times.
Whatever the reason, they remain compelling stories of the tremendous cruelty that lays under the surface of ordinary people, for while those in control may have bee evil demoniclly possessed monsters, the day to day work had to be carried out by ordinary people. At the same time they are equally compelling tales of heroism and survival in the face of unimaginable odds and reveal the strength that lies beneath the surface of so many people.
If only they could reveal how to get that strength out before that ability to be cruel kicked in.
In any event, the delly I took in registering the arrrival of this book is a testament only to my sloppiness these days and not to my interest in sitting down and absorbing this first person account of those times.
