Primo Levi
1919–1987 · Italian (Turin) · 20th Century
Known for: Survived Auschwitz and wrote about it with the clarity of a chemist — because he was a chemist
Levi survived Auschwitz and wrote If This Is a Man and The Periodic Table — among the most important Holocaust testimonies and among the finest memoirs in any language.
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