If This is a Man: Remembering Auschwitz (A 3 in 1 Volume) Hardcover – January 1, 1986 by Primo Levi 
 
Born in Turin in 1919 and studying chemistry, Primo Levi joined his friends in resisting fascism in northern Italy during the Second World War. When the Italian Jew made no secret of his identity, he was first deported to the concentration camp in Fissolo, and after two months there, in 1944, he was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp with six hundred and fifty other people. He was 24 years old. He was one of the twenty survivors out of six hundred and fifty people. For the rest of his life, his highest priority was to convey all that he had seen and experienced, with a determination that could be called superhuman, to prevent the murderous madness of the Nazis from disappearing in the darkness of oblivion.Is Man a text in which Nazi persecution, the hell of concentration and death camps, the unimaginable physical and spiritual violence inflicted on man by man is expressed with extraordinary objectivity and the cry of millions of lives lost? He lives an incredible life against the murderous powerful.
 
It is a book of unparalleled testimony, filled with incredible life-affirming resistance to the murderous powerful.
Facing the truth about human beings hurts the conscience, it hurts, yes, but not to forget, not to make people forget is the priority of the person who wants to live with dignity.
 
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