Survival In Auschwitz Research Paper

Survival in Auschwitz takes place during the 1940s. The 40s were a tragic time for many in the world as it was the time that WWII took place. WWII began in 1939 and lasted until 1945. The war began when Germany invaded Poland. As a response, Britain and France declared war on Germany. By 1940, Germany had advanced and conquered more countries, attacking Denmark, Norway, Belgium, the Netherlands, and France. The Nazis, who had power of Germany, believed that Germans were “racially superior” and the Jews were foreign to their way of life and a threat to their racial community. As a result of their ideas, they began a series of forced labor camps, often known as concentration camps. The concentration camps were a harsh way of life and few survived

the brutality of the camp. At the beginning of the war there were over nine million Jews that lived in the areas that Germany would later attack. By 1945, the Germans had killed roughly every two out of three Jews. Primo Levi was one of the Jews that was ripped away from his home and forced to live the life of a prisoner. For years, Levi suffered through day to day tasks in the camp. Luckily, by 1945 the Germans surrendered and the camp was liberated. Levi survived though years of turmoil only to be brought back to his normal life. However, the events of his past haunted him and many of his family and friends had died, unable to withstand the cruelty of the camps. About a year after Levi’s freedom, he wrote a message. He wrote a message of the ferocity of the events, to tell everyone of the persecution he had gone through and to let people be aware of the ruthlessness of the war. Levi told his story, the story of his Survival in Auschwitz.