Essays on Survival in Auschwitz

Primo Levi’s memoir, Survival in Auschwitz, paints a vivid and horrifying picture of the life of a prisoner in Auschwitz during World War Two. The description of everyday life consisted of mental, emotional and physical struggle. Prisoners who entered the camp had everything stripped from...

In his memoir, Primo Levi provides insight on basic survival in Auschwitz, as well as detailed stories about acquaintances he met during his stay. Throughout the book, Levi seemed to heavily analyze numerous people he met, encounters he had or what he saw. Each character...

In the memoir Survival in Auschwitz: If This Is a Man, written by Primo Levi he explicitly expresses his hardships, wants, and his survival of being held in a concentration camp. Levi dreams of his arrival back home, he wishes to be reunited by his...

Survival in Auschwitz, written by Primo Levi, is the story of the Author himself and his time spent in Auschwitz, a German death camp/slave labor subcamp Auschwitz III, also known as Monowitz. The Lager, Mr. Levi commented, is one that “we would like to consider...