Survival in Auschwitz

by Primo Levi · 1946

Heard in 1 episode across 1 show since Oct 2026

In 1943, Primo Levi, a twenty-five-year-old chemist and “Italian citizen of Jewish race,” was arrested by the Italian Fascists and deported from his native Turin to Auschwitz. Levi was spared the gas chambers because his technical training was deemed useful for work in the I. G. Farben laboratories of Hitler’s Third Reich. Survival in Auschwitz is Levi’s classic account of his ten months in the German death camp, a harrowing story of systematic cruelty and miraculous survival.

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