Part 1 of Essay
Italian-Jew writer and chemist, who gained first fame with his autobiographical story SE QUESTO È UN UOMO (If This is a Man, 1947) of survival in Nazi concentration camps. devoted the last fourty years of his life to attempts to deal with the fact that he survived Auschwitz. published also poetry, science fiction, essays ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... that his family had occupied for three generations. In 1961 became the general manager of a factory producing paints. He retired in 1977 to become a full-time writer. His prison recollections wrote in the form of memoir, Se questo è un uomo. It was reprinted in an enlarged edition ten years later. The book sold over half a million copies in Italy, was translated into eight languages and adapted for the theater and radio. It documented how the camp deprived each individual of his and her identity and dignity ....