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Primo Michele Levi (Italian: [ˈpriːmo ˈlɛːvi]; 31 July 1919 – 11 April 1987) was a Jewish-Italian chemist, partisan, writer, and Holocaust survivor. He was the author of several books, collections of short stories, essays, poems and one novel.
Apr 7, 2024 · Notable Works: “If This is a Man”. “The Periodic Table”. Primo Levi (born July 31, 1919, Turin, Italy—died April 11, 1987, Turin) was an Italian-Jewish writer and chemist, noted for his restrained and moving autobiographical account of and reflections on survival in the Nazi concentration camps.
Apr 2, 2014 · Italian-Jewish chemist Primo Levi survived a year at Auschwitz against all odds. Read about his courageous journey and subsequent literary achievements at Biography.com
Mar 11, 2019 · Levi’s extraordinary memoirs tell the real story of the Holocaust. One hundred years after the author’s birth, Thomas Graham celebrates his genius and humanity. Primo Levi: A clear-eyed...
Apr 29, 2017 · Published: April 29, 2017 4:38am EDT. When he was captured by the Fascist militia in December of 1943, Primo Levi (1919-1987) preferred to declare his status as an “Italian citizen of the Jewish ...
Sep 21, 2015 · Levi gives ebullient life to this comfortable, sometimes eccentric world in “The Periodic Table”—a memoir, a history, an essay in elegy, and the best example of his various literary talents.
Primo Levi (1919-1987) was an Italian chemist deported to Auschwitz in February 1944 after being captured during activities as a partisan. Of the 650 people on his transport, only 96 were not sent to the gas chambers immediately on arrival: of the 96 registered in the camp, only three survived.
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