Why a Booktrail?
ww2: Primo spent time in Auschwitz and this is a harrowing account of his ordeal.
If This Is a Man / The Truce
What you need to know before your trail
With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, duitful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to think it through, and then to render it comprehensible in lucid, unpretentious prose. He was profoundly in touch with the minutest workings of the most endearing human events and with the most contempible
Locations
Reset- Poland - Auschwitz-Birkenau
- A: Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau
- B: Tourist Information Center in Oswiecim
- C: Judenrampe
Travel Guide
Auschwitz – day to day
This is a very painful read of what day to day life was like in Auschwitz. There are plenty books about the politics and depravity of it all, but this is the human angle, the experience of one man in the middle of the most tragic event of the 20th century. Even more tragic is the fact that the author died many years after his imprisonment of a suspected suicide due to depression.
Primo Levi may not have died in Auschwitz but Auschwitz claimed his life many decades later.
Booktrail Boarding Pass: If This Is a Man / The Truce
Destination: Auschwitz, Europe Author/Guide: Primo Levi Departure Time: ww2 onwards
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