Primo Levi Research Paper

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Primo Levi “The aims of life are the best defense against death.” (Levi) That is one of Primo Levi's quotes from his book, Survival in Auschwitz. Primo Levi is known for writing books about the Holocaust. He was also a chemist. As an Italian-Jew he was put in a concentration camp. After the camp was liberated by the Russians, a year later, he was finally free from the Nazis. Primo Levi was born on July 31, 1919. He was raised in a small Jewish community in Turin, Italy with his parents and younger sister. According to My Jewish Learning, Levi was socially withdrawn and often bullied for his small frame and timid deposition. He was very smart and focused a lot on his studies. He found his love for chemistry after reading Concerning the Nature of Things. After that he decided to be a chemist. Levi went to University of Turin to study chemistry. Although it was illegal for Jews to go to school, a professor helped Levi and he graduated. As stated on Biography, "Using a false identity and forged papers, he was eventually employed as a chemist with a mining company and …show more content…
His wife, Lucia, and him had two children, Lisa Levi and Renzo Levi. Levi decided to change his career from an independent chemist to an author. He wrote many autobiographies as well as fiction. His most popular books are Survival in Auschwitz, The Periodic Table, and If This is a Man. On April 11, 1987, Levi was pronounced dead after a fall from a three-story stairwell. It occurred at the same apartment that he had been raised at. The police considered his fall suicide. Although his family refuses to believe that he committed suicide, it is a possibility. He could have jumped off of that stairwell because he felt guilty that he lived to tell his side of the story, when many did not survive the torture that they were put through. There are many reasons why he could have done it, but no one knows for

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