PRIMO LEVI

Primo Levi was born into a family of Turin Jews and graduated in chemistry in 1941. After September 8, he joined the partisans and in 1943 he was taken prisoner and taken to Auschwitz, where he remained until February 26, 1945, the day of the liberation of the camp. Levi managed to survive thanks to his degree in chemistry which allowed him to be a "specialist" in a rubber factory, after passing some tests. This allowed him to survive and save himself from the cold because the factory was heated.

In January 1945, the Germans decided to evacuate the concentration camps, leaving eight hundred people who were unable to move, including Primo Levi. Ten days later a red patrol arrived at the camp. The experience in the concentration camp was narrated in the book "If this is a man" which is a fundamental text for understanding and remembering the Holocaust.

Primo Levi's return to Italy was very long. To get there, the ex-prisoners made a very long journey to get to Italy and Primo Levi recounted this experience in one of his books "The truce". Once back in Turin, Levi felt the need to tell what happened. Levi died 40 years later, in 1984.