Primo Levi

Primo Levi (died 1987) was born in Turin on 31 July 1919 into a Jewish family. In 1941 he obtained his degree in chemistry from the University of Turin, despite the racial laws of 1938. He joined the armed resistance in the autumn of 1943, was arrested on 13 December, then sent to Auschwitz at the beginning of 1944; he did not return to Turin until October 1945. He then worked for almost thirty years in a paint factory near Turin, received the Strega Prize and died in Turin on 11 April 1987.

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