Primo Levi
Primo Levi
Primo Michele Leviwas 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, his account of the year he spent as a prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland; and his unique work, The Periodic Table, linked to qualities of the elements, which the Royal Institution of Great Britain named the best science book ever written...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth31 July 1919
CountryItaly
Today I think that if for no other reason than that an Auschwitz existed, no one in our age should speak of Providence.
He could hardly read or write but his heart spoke the language of the good
I too entered the Lager as a nonbeliever, and as a nonbeliever I was liberated and have lived to this day.
There are few men who know how to go to their deaths with dignity, and often they are not those whom one would expect.