Survival in Auschwitz is a book of how life in a concentration camp was. It is Primo Levi's story of being taken as an Italian partisan in December 1943 and shipped to Poland cause he was a Jew. The book begins with the ironic sentence, "It was my good fortune to be deported to Auschwitz only in 1944..." He shows us through every way of surviving in the camps: a four-day train trip in packed train with …showed first 75 words of 585 total…

…showed last 75 words of 585 total…worlds, I would also have explained the essence of the great insanity of the third Germany." Primo Levi survives because he has brains and luck. He is in the infirmary when the camp ships out before the Russian Army come. No one knows what happened to those healthy enough to march. Did they die in the furnaces? Levi, meanwhile, must suffer only the cold, the infectious diseases, and the hunger the Germans leave behind them