PDF Survival in Auschwitz

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Survival
in
Auschwitz
Description
Survival in Auschwitz If This Is
a Man is a book
written by the
Italian author, Primo Levi. It describes his
arrest as a member of the Italian anti-fascist
resistance during the Second World War, and his
incarceration in the Auschwitz concentration camp
from February 1944 until the camp was liberated
on 27 January 1945.Levi, then a
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25-year-old chemist, spent 10 months in Auschwitz
before the camp was liberated by the Red Army. Of
the 650 Italian Jews in his shipment, Levi was
one of only twenty who left the camps alive. The
average life expectancy of a new entrant was
three months. 65279Tis truly amazing story
offers a revealing glimpse into the realities of
the Holocaust and its effects on our world.