Primo Levi

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Primo Levi was an Italian Jewish chemist and writer renowned for his powerful memoirs and reflections on his experiences in Nazi concentration camps and the Holocaust.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf Holocaust survivor
book
book
book
chemist
essay collection
human
novel
writer
academicDegree degree in chemistry
author Primo Levi
Primo Levi
Primo Levi
Primo Levi
Primo Levi
awardReceived Campiello Prize
Viareggio Prize
causeOfDeath fall from stairwell
suspected suicide
countryOfBirth Italy
countryOfCitizenship Italy
countryOfDeath Italy
dateOfBirth 1919-07-31
dateOfDeath 1987-04-11
describedIn Holocaust memoirs
educatedAt University of Turin
employer SIVA chemical factory
ethnicGroup Italian Jew
familyName Levi
fieldOfWork Holocaust literature
autobiographical writing
chemistry
genre Holocaust memoir
autobiographical fiction
essay
memoir
short stories
givenName Primo
hasLiteraryForm testimony literature
influenced Holocaust studies
postwar Italian literature
influencedBy Holocaust experiences
languageOfWorkOrName Italian
militaryConflict Second World War
movement Neorealism
name Primo Levi
notableWork If Not Now, When?
If This Is a Man
The Drowned and the Saved
The Periodic Table
The Truce
occupation chemist
essayist
memoirist
short story writer
writer
participantIn Holocaust
Italian anti-fascist resistance
placeOfBirth Turin
placeOfDeath Turin
placeOfDetention Auschwitz concentration camp
Monowitz (Auschwitz III)
religion Judaism
sexOrGender male


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