Primo Levi in Auschwitz

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comparison is used because of the general public’s familiarity with the Holocaust. Towards this topic it is likely they have some preconceived notions and emotions, and the author aims to stir the same feelings in his audience about the subject matter he relays. Though it can be said that the Nazis’ mass extermination of the Jews and others was one case of modern genocide eventually brought to an end, the continuance of modern genocide on a global scale, for example in Rwanda, shows that genocide during World War II was not history’s solitary case of large-scale slaughter and destruction of a race.
Levi’s book also explains methods for survival employed by him in the camp. He had to make strategic decisions that would benefit him overall. For example, he had the opportunity to trade Walter Bonn half a ration of bread for a knife, but Levi turned down the offer because he reasoned that someone would always lend him a knife while bread was harder to come by (Levi, 52). He and ...

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