Survival in Auschwitz
by Primo Levi
Survival in Auschwitz is the US title of Primo Levi's memoir Se questo è un uomo (If This Is a Man), first published by the Turin press Francesco De Silva in 1947. It records his time in Auschwitz, February 1944 to January 1945. The Orion Press published Stuart Woolf's translation in 1959.
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- Francesco De Silva, Turin, 1947
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- If This Is a Man, Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)
- An extraordinary gift, Centro Internazionale di Studi Primo Levi (primolevicenter.org)
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