Auschwitz stories always make me sad and scared.

This one was told to a class by a survivor and I really liked the black and white art, tho the faces made me rather uncomfortable.

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Primo Levi is a visually appealing and wonderfully written examination of the author's life. I appreciated this book as an opportunity to introduce an important literary voice to readers through both words and pictures.

The graphics are stunning and chilling, and bring this story to life. I have just finished reading, and I’m speechless....how do I say the book is excellent, when the content is horrific? I highly recommend everyone read this, it’s so important we don’t forget.

This book is exceedingly well drawn. I found the story lacking in the sense that there was just not enough there. Reading the afterwards gave me some additional context. This man had a life changing experience which obviously haunted him to his end days. he also made it his life’s work to tell his story of being at Auschwitz. I just wish the author had done that tale a bit more justice.

To say this left me shook feels like an understatement, Ranghiasci's art is as haunting as the pictures I remember first seeing as a young child, but also having this story told in the way it was naritavely felt very different from how I was initially introduced to this piece of history. I felt like it was impactful in such a different way,

This book would be such a great way to introduce this topic, rather then just diving into the history.

A successful graphic novel look at the life of Primo Levi, chemist by schooling, writer from necessity, and Auschwitz inmate through, well, a mix of bad luck and of course the Nazis' will. I got the inference Levi only joined the Resistance because he was chasing tail, but either way the pacifist was soon caught, and had to take the easier path, of declaring himself Jewish and therefore camp fodder, as opposed to calling himself some kind of freedom fighter and therefore being immediately shot. Dressed in spartan black and white, this book almost matches the infamous camp uniforms in colour, but framed as a talk given to a class of inquisitive young hot-headed kids back in his childhood school, it gets to skip through his life with ease. The imagery, even when touching on the almost stereotypical, the shuffle, the jam-packed barracks, the piled-up corpses, is starkly emotive, showing if it shows anything the complete reduction of dignity the camp produced. Several addenda take the book away from the school shelf where the core of it would succeed most, into the realm of historian's artefact, but that takes little away. As a debut work for both the author and the artist, this is sterling stuff. A strong four stars.