Primo Levi – Matter of a Life – Berel Lang purim after joining a partisan group

after joining a partisan group

Melly Bottner is just eighteen with a three-week old newborn son when the Nazi occupation of Belgium begins

In uncovering her father’s story after all these years

a unique brass plaque is stamped with its victim's name

Primo Levi – Matter of a Life – Berel Lang purim after joining a partisan groupFrom the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, the first intellectual biography of Primo Levi to describe the intersection of his roles as both chemist and writer. 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