In Survival In Auschwitz, Primo Levi details his experience of life inside of Auschwitz and as a Holocaust survivor. Levi was a twenty-five year old chemist who was involved in the anti-Fascist movement in Italy. In late 1943, Levi was captured and sent to Auschwitz, where he stayed for the remainder of the war. Survival in Auschwitz is a bitter account, drenched and coated in pain, hunger, and cold. Prisoners are gradually dehumanised into Haftlinge who are only concerned with their own existence
coercion, essentially out competing their peers. Enter Auschwitz, one of the infamous Nazi concentration camps where Hitler’s final solution to exterminate the Jews of Europe was implemented. In the hellish environment of these death camps, the oppressive conditions quickly succeed in dehumanizing it’s captives, stripping them naked of their human possessions and ideals. Through the memoirs of those who lived through this hell, including Primo Levi, an Italian Jew, it is possible to examine the social