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    04.22.18 Primo Levi Essay The book, Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi, is an autobiography that talks about the brutal experience of him in Auschwitz. The book is written as if the reader were to be talking one on one with Levi. He describes to the reader's how he saw the men and women lose their humanity overtime because of the treatment in Auschwitz. Throughout his story he describes the dehumanization and slowly realizes that it was not just his survival and dehumanization, but it was everyone’s

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    In both Primo Levi’s Survival in Auschwitz and Lydia Chukovskaya’s Sofia Petrovna, basic human and individual rights were compromised and destroyed. In Survival in Auschwitz, all the comforts and basic necessities for life are taken away. Food and shelter were very limited and were almost nonexistent. In Sofia Petrovna, she is brainwashed by the government, and eventually goes mad because of all the stress in her everyday life. Both of these novels accurately demonstrate the Stalinist and Nazi government’s

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    that occurred at the hands of the Nazis. Primo Levi was one of these survivors. In Survival in Auschwitz, Levi struggles to articulate the atrocities that occurred in Auschwitz while simultaneously admitting the impossibility of such an undertaking. As he confesses in his book, “…our language lacks words to express this offence, the demolition of a man.” A scientist by trade, Levi speaks of his time in Auschwitz in bare, almost clinical terms. Two popular critiques have arisen from this approach:

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    Primo Levi's Survival in Auschwitz Reading the novel Survival in Auschwitz by author Primo Levi leads one to wonder whether his survival is attributed to his indefinite will to survive or a very subservient streak of luck. Throughout the novel, he is time and again spared from the fate that supposedly lies ahead of all inhabitants of the death camp at Auschwitz. Whether it was falling ill at the most convenient times or coming in contact with prisoners who had a compassionate, albeit uncommon

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    For his personal use this book was “First and foremost, as an interior liberation.” Overall I believe that Primo Levi wrote this book to satisfy a personal need, to liberate himself the memory of his time at Auschwitz. There are like any memoir strength and weakness of Survival in Auschwitz. The major strength

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    “Survival in Auschwitz” is Primo Levi’s account of the horrors inflicted upon the prisoners contained within Auschwitz and their struggle to remain themselves and survive within the camp. The sign placed at the entrance of Auschwitz read the words “Arbeit Macht Frei”, or “Work Gives Freedom”, an ironic statement considering the Nazis took everything away from these individuals that constitutes established human rights and freedom. Without the elements that make up a human being, there was limited

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    Striving for survival What is survival? Survival is the state or fact of continuing to live or exist, typically in spite of an accident, ordeal, or difficult circumstances. Humans have been around for approximately 200,000 and have strived to the maximum to survive. Throughout these years, humans have evolved and adapted to their surroundings. Humans endeavor to survive. Striving for survival isn’t something new. Human ancestors have been doing this way back since caveman. They have fought against

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    ‘Survival in Auschwitz’, is a book based on the personal experience of the author, Primo Levi, in the death camp at Auschwitz where he was taken prisoner after the arrest. The Nazis took Primo Levi, an Italian Jew and chemist, to the Auschwitz death camp in Poland in 1944, where he and other prisoners endured months of cruel and inhuman treatment, stripped of fundamental rights and forced to work under adverse conditions until death. As the Holocaust survivor, the purpose of writing the book arose

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    Response to Survival in Auschwitz “Why is the pain of every day translated so constantly into our dreams, in the ever-repeated scene of the unlistened-to story” (Levi, p 60)? As I read this quote in my book, I highlighted it and wrote in the margin “foreshadowing”. I feel confident that these dreams signified just that; that the author (amongst the other survivors) would forever re-live those horrors and try tell their stories…and no one listens. The poem at the beginning of the book, Survival in Auschwitz

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    In Survival in Auschwitz, Primo Levi depicts a life where, under the severe conditions of hunger, cold, illness, and constant fear, men are transformed into beasts, and where justice and morality become insignificant in the fight for survival. Upon entering Auschwitz, families are separated and immediately hundreds are sent to their deaths. Tattooed and given their new identity of serial numbers, many forget their own past and their names. Initially, Levi accepts his imminent death as everyone emphasizes

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