Primo Levi
Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor, and writer (1919-1987) · Italy · Scientists · Died at 67
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Something wrong?He survived Auschwitz, became a chemist, then wrote what may be the most precise account of the camps ever set down - a testimony that refuses both rage and self-pity, built instead from the clinical eye of a scientist watching his own extinction.
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, I beg the reader not to go in search of messages.
Those who deny Auschwitz would be ready to remake it.
In order for the wheel to turn, for life to be lived, impurities are needed, and the impurities of impurities in the soil, too, as is known, if it is to be fertile.
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About this person
Primo Michele Levi was born 31 July 1919 in Italy, trained as a chemist, and joined the partisans during the war. Captured and deported to Auschwitz, he spent a year as a prisoner in Nazi-occupied Poland. He returned and in 1947 published "If This Is a Man" (released in the United States as "Survival in Auschwitz"), his account of that year. In 1975 he published "The Periodic Table", a collection of mostly autobiographical short stories each named after a chemical element that plays a role in the narrative; the Royal Institution later named it the best science book ever written. On 11 April 1987, Levi died from injuries sustained in a fall from a third-storey apartment landing - officially ruled a suicide, though some who knew him dispute that and call it an accident.
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