Part one of term paper
Italian-Jew writer and chemist, who gained first fame with his autobiographical story SE QUESTO È UN UOMO (If This is a Man, 1947) of survival in Nazi concentration camps. devoted the last fourty years of his life to attempts to deal with the fact that he survived Auschwitz. published also poetry, science fiction, essays, and short stories ...

Part two of term paper
... in a transit camp in Fòssoli. Two months later he was deported to the camp ofMoniwitz-Auschwitz. From the transport of 650 people, fifteen men and nine woman survived. Liberated by the Soviets in January 1945 returned in Turin, after an eight-month odyssey. took up his work as a chemist, living in a stately old building that his family had occupied for three generations. In 1961 became the general manager of a factory producing paints. He retired in 1977 to become a full-time writer. His ...