Submitted by sam on Wed, 06/25/2008 – 15:23.
An Italian Jew, Primo Levi survived a year in the Nazi concentration camps. After WWII he returned to Italy and worked as a chemist while writing about his experiences in Auschwitz. Following the war, the world was mostly silent about the Holocaust and he spent many years working in obscurity before his work reached a significant audience. Today his books stand as an essential record of this dark chapter of world history.