Italian language
Published May 14, 1947 by Giulio Einaudi.
Se questo è un uomo
by Primo Levi
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If This Is a Man (Italian: Se questo è un uomo [se kˈkwesto ˌɛ un ˈwɔːmo]; United States title: Survival in Auschwitz) is a memoir by Italian Jewish writer Primo Levi, first published in 1947. 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 (Monowitz) from February 1944 until the camp was liberated on 27 January 1945.
Subjects
- The Holocaust
- Jewish people
- Nazism
- war
- World War II
- deportation
- concentration camp
- Auschwitz-Birkenau