It was pure chance that enabled Primo Levi to survive Auschwitz. Evaluate. Levi, P "If This is a Man", Abacus, London, UK (2004)
Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 01:09:17
Category: / History / European History
Length: 4 pages (982 words)
Category: / History / European History
Length: 4 pages (982 words)
Although Primo Levi was the recipient of good fortune, he fundamentally survived Auschwitz because of resourceful improvisation and his ability to maintain a sense of humanity. Levi was not a particularly strong and capable prisoner and could easily have become a 'muselmann'. However, he was able to overcome his physical weaknesses by using his initiative to survive the brutality of the Lager. "To escape from Auschwitz was no small fortune" (p.57).
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…to the help and support of his friends and comrades. He also had the paradoxical good luck to come down with scarlet fever just as the Germans began to evacuate the Auschwitz complex. However, it was equally, or more, his desire to survive, his basic initiative to build upon his resources and never losing sight of the fact that he was a man that saved him. Levi needed more than sheer luck to survive Auschwitz.
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