Primo Levi
(1919–1987)

Chemist and writer Primo Levi refused to allow his fate to be decided by the cruelty and intolerance of one of the darkest periods in history. When Nazism infected his homeland in 1943, Levi joined a group of resistance fighters. Unfortunately, he was captured and sent to Auschwitz, a concentration camp in Poland.

Although Levi was one of the lucky few to walk out of the camp when it was liberated by the Allies in 1944, he would never escape the horrors of his experiences there. Those experiences are depicted in his memoir Survival in Auschwitz.

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