Survival In Auschwitz by Primo Levi - On the Bottom

Survival in Auschwitz is a mostly straightforward narrative, beginning with Primo Levis deportation from Turin, Italy, to the concentration camp Auschwitz in Poland in 1943. Levi, then a 25-year-old chemist, spent 10 months in the camp. Even Levis most graphic descriptions of the horrors he witnessed and endured there are marked by a restraint and wit that not only gives readers access to his experience, but confronts them with it in stark ethical and emotional terms: [A]t dawn the barbed wire was full of childrens washing hung out in the wind to dry. Nor did they forget the diapers, the toys, the cushions and the hundred other small things which mothers remember and which children always need. Would you not do the same? If you and your child were going to be killed tomorrow, would you not give him something to eat today? --Michael Joseph Gross

On the Bottom
Wonderful work--not just a survivor's account, but an attempt to place what he suffered through within the context of morals and human nature. If you are looking for a gruesome Holocaust book, look elsewhere (though there are plenty of passages that made me sigh). Instead, Levi talks about what it meant to be at the bottom, how humans act when stripped of everything and what motivated him to survive despite all of this. For me, the most compelling part was the chapter in which Lorenzo, the Italian civilian who aided him. Levi writes: "I believe that it was really due to Lorenzo that I am alive today; and not so much for his material aid, as for his constantly having reminded me by his presence, by his natural plain manner of being good, that there still existed a just world outside our own, something and someone still pure and whole, not corrupt, not savage, extraneous to hatred and terror; something difficult to define, a remote possibility of good, but for which it was worth surviving."

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