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Primo Levi: The Matter of a Life (Matter of a Life) by Berel Lang; Ariella Lang is a biography available to read on EtoBox.
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In 1943, twenty-four-year-old Primo Levi had just begun a career in chemistry when, after joining a partisan group, he was captured by the Italian Fascist Militia and deported to Auschwitz. Of the 650 Italian Jews in his transport, he was one of fewer than 25 who survived the eleven months before the camp’s liberation. Upon returning to his native Turin, Levi resumed work as a chemist and was employed for thirty years by a company specializing in paints and other chemical coatings. Yet soon afte
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Berel Lang; Ariella Lang
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780300199208
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- Memoir, Literary Fiction, Romance
- Rating
- 3.9 / 5 (19 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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