HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR

PRIMO LEVI

ABOUT PRIMO LEVI

• Primo Levi was born in Turin,Italy in 1919.
• He was a trained chemist and was arrested during World War II.
• He was arrested because he was a member of the anti-Fascist resistance and was deported to Auschwitz.
• He died in April 1987 at the age of 68
• Was 25 when he was sent to Auschwitz

EXPERIENCES

• His experience in Auschwitz and his subsequent travels through Europe, the place where he was tortured, were the subject of powerful memoirs,poetry, and fiction,
• He was tortured at Auschwitz until he went on a death march to liberation.
• During his death march many people got sick and died. He got sick as we'll but he was positive so the sickness didn't prevent him from getting liberation.

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