Skip to content
Teaching the Holocaust and other Genocides
 
Created in collaboration with the Holocaust & Human Rights Center, the NYS Education Department, and the NYS Archives Partnership Trust.

Primo Levi

About the Poet

Primo Levi (1919-1943) was an Italian-Jewish chemist from Turin who survived the Auschwitz concentration camp because his skills as a chemist were useful to the Nazis. Levi was arrested and deported to Auschwitz in 1943. Levi was haunted by his war time experiences and committed suicide in 1987.