Primo Levi (1919–87) (2)
11 April 1987 | Primo Levi passed away. He was an Italian Jewish writer & chemist. From 26 February 1944 a prisoner of the German Nazi Auschwitz camp no. 174517.
In September 1947 he published his book "If this is a man"
You who live safe
In your warm houses;
You who find on returning in the evening
Hot food and friendly faces:
Consider if this is a man
Who works in the mud
Who knows no peace
Who fights for a bit of bread
Who dies because of a yes and because of a no
Consider if this is a woman,
Without hair & without name
Without enough strength to remember
Vacant eyes & cold womb
Like a frog in the winter:
Reflect on the fact that this has happened:
These words I commend to you:
Inscribe them on your heart
When staying at home & going out,
Going to bed and rising up;
Repeat them to your children:
Or may your house fall down,
Illness bar your way,
Your loved ones turn away from you.
Primo Levi was a great writer and a gifted chemist. But the thing he was best at—even as it most reduced him, and probably because it most reduced him—was Auschwitz
The chemist, writer and Holocaust survivor died on April 11th 1987
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