Personal Experiences
Real world
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- Imprisonment
Primo Levi wrote the book from his own year as a prisoner in Auschwitz, where he survived partly as a chemist in the camp's laboratory, and set it down soon after his return.
Nonfiction· 1947· Nonfiction
by Primo Levi
Se questo è un uomo (If This Is a Man): it draws on 2 recorded sources.
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Real world
Primo Levi wrote the book from his own year as a prisoner in Auschwitz, where he survived partly as a chemist in the camp's laboratory, and set it down soon after his return.
Real world
Primo Levi's account of the year he spent as a prisoner in Auschwitz, written soon after his return, as a witness to what the camp did to the people in it.