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If This Is a Man

author: Primo Levi (1947)
date read: 2020-04-15
pages: 187
lists: history
rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆
Cover of If This Is a Man.

For once, I have nothing to say. This first-hand account of one year spent in Auschwitz is very calm, deliberately matter-of-fact, and inevitably painful to read.

Tobias
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51/ If This Is a Man by Primo Levi. First-hand account of a year in Auschwitz. Nothing else to say: It is as painful as it is necessary. https://books.rixx.de/primo-levi/if-this-is-a-man/
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51/ If This Is a Man by Primo Levi. First-hand account of a year in Auschwitz. Nothing else to say: It is as painful as it is necessary. https://books.rixx.de/primo-levi/if-this-is-a-man/ #rixxReads

Quotes

Since it is difficult to distinguish true prophets from false, it is as well to regard all prophets with suspicion.

Cover of The Diary of a Young Girl.

The Diary of a Young Girl

by Anne Frank · published 1947 · read 2003-04-01
★ ★ ★ ★ ☆
Another first-hand account.
Cover of The Reawakening.

The Reawakening

by Primo Levi · published 1963 · read 2020-04-22
★ ★ ★ ★ ☆
The second part.