History Literature / IfThisIsAMan

->''"You who live safe in your warm houses, you who find, returning in the evening, hot food and friendly faces: consider [[TitleDrop if this is a man]] who works in the mud, who does not know peace, who fights for a scrap of bread, who dies because of a yes or a no. Consider if this is a woman without hair and [[YouAreNumberSix without name]], with no more strength to remember, her eyes empty and her womb cold like a frog in winter. Meditate that this came about: I commend these words to you. Carve them in your hearts at home, in the street, going to bed, rising; repeat them to your children."''

->''"You who live safe in your warm houses, you who find, returning in the evening, hot food and friendly faces: consider [[TitleDrop if this is a man]] who works in the mud, who does not know peace, who fights for a scrap of bread, who dies because of a yes or a no. Consider if this is a woman without hair and without name, with no more strength to remember, her eyes empty and her womb cold like a frog in winter. Meditate that this came about: I commend these words to you. Carve them in your hearts at home, in the street, going to bed, rising; repeat them to your children."''

->''"You who live safe in your warm houses, you who find, returning in the evening, hot food and friendly faces: consider [[TitleDrop if this is a man]] who works in the mud, who does not know peace, who fights for a scrap of bread, who dies because of a yes or a no. Consider if this is a woman without hair and without name, with no more strength to remember, her eyes empty and her womb cold like a frog in winter. Meditate that this came about: I commend these words to you. Carve them in your hearts at home, in the street, going to bed, rising; repeat them to your children.
Or may your house fall apart, may illness impede you, may your children turn their faces from you."''

The short book details the year Levi, who was a member of the [[LaResistance Italian anti-Fascist Resistance]] prior to his arrest, spent in the Auschwitz concentration camp, from February 1944 until the liberation. Often draw comparisons with Elis Wiesel's ''Literature/{{Night}}'', though it is more straight-forwardly autobiographical in nature.

!!Provides Examples Of:

* JewishAndNerdy: Primo himself, who graduated with top honours in Chemistry at the University of Turin, and who is able to secure a position in the camp laboratory due to his performance in a chemistry exam - which he has to take in German, while half-starved and freezing.
* LaResistance: Levi was a member of the anti-Fascist resistance prior to his arrest, though this does not feature heavily in the narrative.

* ThinkNothingOfIt: Lorenzo, the Italian civilian who provides Primo with extra food and clothes, at great personal risk, and doesn't even want to be thanked.
* TraumaInducedAmnesia: Levi notes in the afterward that Jean seems to have forgotten most of the year he spent at Auschwitz-Monowitz.

* YouNoTakeCandle

''Se questo è un uomo'' (USA title - ''Survival in Auschwitz''). The first part of the memoir of Primo Levi, an Italian Jew who survived the Holocaust, originally published in 1947.

* EmptyShell: Null Achtzehn.

* [[YouAreNumberSix You Are Number 174517]]

* YiddishAsAForeignLanguage: Among the Eastern Europeans.

* [[YouAreNumberSix You Are Number 174517]]

* LaResistance: Levi was a member of the anti-Fascist resistance prior to his arrest, though this does not feature heavily in the narrative.

''Se questo è un uomo'' (US title - ''Survival in Auschwitz''). The first part of the memoir of Primo Levi, an Italian Jew who survived the Holocaust, originally published in 1947.