If This is a Man
Jane Joseph (Etchings) London: The Folio Society, 2001. Second Printing [stated]. Hardcover. Format is 7 inches by 9 inches. In slipcase. 235 pages. Frontis. Illustrations. Introduction by Frederic Raphael. Afterword by the author. This edition follows the translation first published by The Orion Press in 1960, with minor emendations. Primo Michele Levi (31 July 1919 – 11 April 1987) was an Italian Jewish chemist, writer, and Holocaust survivor. He was the author of several books, novels, collections of short stories, essays, and poems. His best-known works include If This Is a Man (1947, published as Survival in Auschwitz in the United States), his account of the year he spent as a prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland; and The Periodic Table (1975), linked to qualities of the elements, which the Royal Institution of Great Britain named the best science book ever written. Levi (number 174517) spent eleven months at Auschwitz before the camp was liberated on 18 January 1945. Of the 650 Italian Jews in his transport, Levi was one of twenty who survived. SURVIVAL IN AUSCHWITZ (or If This Is a Man), first published in 1947, is a work by the Italian-Jewish writer, 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. Condition: Very good.
Keywords: Jews, Holocaust, Anti-Semitism, Auschwitz, Concentration Camp, Survivor, Survival, Prisoners, Liberation
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