Levi Italian-Jew writer and chemist, who gained first fame with his autobiographical story SE QUESTO Θ UN UOMO (If This is a Man, 1947) of survival in Nazi concentration camps. Levi devoted the last fourty years of his life to attempts to deal with the fact that he survived Auschwitz. Levi published also poetry, science fiction, essays, and short stories. Levi was born in Turin. Just before the Fascist racial law of 1938 forbade Jews access to academic status, Levi started his chemistry studies at the University of Turin and graduated in 1941. Levi wrote also for the resistance magazine Giustizia e Libertΰ. When he tried to contact a partisan group he was captured in December 1943, and interned in a transit camp in Fςssoli. Two months later he was deported to the camp ofMoniwitz-Auschwitz. From the transport of 650 people, fifteen men and nine woman ....

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