Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor, and writer (1919–1987)
Primo Levi was an Italian chemist who survived the Holocaust and later became one of the most important witnesses to that atrocity through his writing, most notably his memoir "Survival in Auschwitz." His accounts of his experiences as a prisoner and his reflections on the Holocaust remain widely read and studied because of their clarity, humanity, and insight into one of history's greatest tragedies.
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Primo Michele Levi ( Italian: [ˈpriːmo ˈlɛːvi]; 31 July 1919 – 11 April 1987) was a Jewish Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor and writer. He was the author of several books, collections of short stories, essays, poems and one novel. His best-known works include: If This Is a Man (Se questo è un uomo, 1947, published as Survival in Auschwitz in the United States), his account of the year he spent as a prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland; and The Periodic Table (1975), a collection of mostly autobiographical short stories, each named after a chemical element which plays a role in each story, which the Royal Institution named the best science book ever written.
Levi died in 1987 from injuries sustained in a fall from a third-storey apartment landing. His death was officially ruled a suicide, although that has been disputed by some of his friends and associates and attributed to an accident.
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