Primo Levi Primo Levi was an Italian novelist, essayist, and chemist, whose works were greatly influenced by his imprisonment for about 2 years at the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz in Southern Poland. Levi was born to a Jewish assimilated family. He wasn’t close to any religion, or to Jewishness, up until Italian government issued some restrictions for Jews. By that time Levi was a student in the local university. According to the new government …showed first 75 words of 636 total…

…showed last 75 words of 636 total…not lucky enough. So, even though Primo Levi survived Auschwitz, returned to Italy, got married, and continued to build his carrier he was not so free. He was “saved” from Nazis who were sending his fellow Jews to gas chambers, he was never saved from his shame for failing of humanistic values. Like many of the “saved” survivors, Levi committed suicide. After so many years after Auschwitz, he couldn’t get free from his memories.