If This Is a Man/The Truce (Revised) | 
pickNot only recounting an experience in Monowitz-Buna, a work camp in the Auschwitz complex, but an examination of the dehumanization that we are capable of...both from the peretrator and the victim.
“In every part of the world, wherever you begin by denying the fundamental liberties of mankind, and equality among people, you move towards the concentration-camp system, and it is a road on which it is difficult to halt.“ - Primo Levi
pickIt's taken me a while to read this because my heart could only take so much. IF THIS IS A MAN is Primo Levi's account of his time in Auschwitz written in a quiet and matter-of-fact way which makes it much more powerful as he describes how the Lager slowly eradicated his humanity. THE TRUCE describes Primo's Odyssean journey back to Italy which manages to be gently humorous and heartbreaking in a different way as Primo slowly rediscovers himself.
I was travelling all day yesterday, so I didn't get a chance to check in for #BFCr3 I'm pretty chuffed with myself this week - I've been out for 3 runs, and finished one book and I'm only a chapter away from finishing another. Snacks have been my downfall, but I'm on holiday 😎
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I'm taking advantage of a rainy afternoon to try to finish the book club book I really should have finished a week ago! IF THIS IS A MAN broke my heart as it quietly describes how Auschwitz reduced Primo Levi to nothing. THE TRUCE is breaking my heart in a different way as Primo slowly regains his sense of personhood on his journey home to Italy.
It's been a crazy few days. I am very late 🙈 but here are my goals for #BFCr3 🙌 I'm excited to be carrying on the challenge, and cheering everybody on to meet their goals!
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A lazy cat and a good book makes for a perfect evening! I'm trying to read more out of my comfort zone, so I joined a reading group. June's book is Primo Levi's account of the months he spent in Auschwitz and his journey back to Italy.
#holocaust #memoir
pickI finished reading this book a month ago, and I still can't get over it (will I ever be able to?).
I'd heard about it, but reading it still shook me up.
If you have never read it, find yourself a copy.
"Meditate that this came about :
I commend these words to you." - Primo Levi
“Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who pause to consider the antithesis: that perfect unhappiness is equally unattainable.”
pickRead the first part this morning as I felt so sad at the report that 5% of Brits do not believe in the Holocaust.
Will read the rest over the next couple of weeks. There‘s only so much sad Sunday can accommodate.
Never forget. Silence is compliance.
I have read this tagged book and noticed this on your TBR. After reading an Atwood book, I‘m not too interested in reading these. I have some others on your TBR but just have to dig them out!
pickDue to our computer issues, we had to back track and re-record episode 16-Luckily it‘s a good one. This one was right in our wheel house as lovers of WWII books. Pop over and give it a listen. #1001books #bookpodcast #applepodcasts #googleplay #soundcloud.
Primo Levi used his skill as a chemist to survive Auschwitz, securing a position as an assistant in a factory that produced synthetic rubber. In this way he avoided hard manual labour in freezing temperatures. When the Red Army liberated the camp; Primo was one of only 20 survivors of the 650 Italian Jews originally transported. #chemicalheart #marchintooz.
Then for the first time we became aware that our language lacks words to express this offence, the demolition of a man...It is not possible to sink lower than this; no human condition is more miserable than this, nor could it conceivably be so. Nothing belongs to us...they have taken away our clothes, our shoes, even our hair; if we speak, they will not listen to us, and if they listen, they will not understand. They will even take away our name..
A country is considered the more civilised the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak and a powerful one too powerful.
Auschwitz is outside of us, but it is all around us...The plague has died away, but the infection still lingers...Rejection of human solidarity, obtuse and cynical indifference to the suffering of others, abdication of the intellect and of moral sense to the principle of authority, and above all, at the root of everything, a sweeping tide of cowardice, a colossal cowardice which masks itself as warring virtue, love of country and faith in an idea.
Today the only thing left of the life of those days is what one needs to suffer hunger and cold; I am not even alive enough to know how to kill myself.
More book fairying...Primo's book left on the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site for someone to find! 📚
1) Essex in the U.K. 🇬🇧
2) If this is a man, Night, I know why the caged bird sings, You and many more
3) Twilight 😳😆& LOTR
4) The Godfather, Gone with the wind,
5) Gilmore Girls, Girls, Sopranos
6) The Beatles, Bjork, Elbow
7) Purple
8) thriller/historical fiction
9) studying for a history degree/stay at home mum
10) not yet...!
pickFor holocaust Memorial Day - one of the few books I have read more than once! Primo Levi was a beautiful man and one of the greatest writers I have ever read! I cannot recommend this book enough!! ❤️ 📚
#fictionnonfictionpairings #seasonsreadings2016 As soon as I read the amazing Mischling I ordered Primo Levi's account of his time at Auschwitz. It was a book Konar herself referenced in her research for her novel. I've yet to read it in full but the parts I've read are fantastic. Written in a unique style I wasn't expecting 📚❤️
#bookmail I'm going to have to curtail my book spending next month...📚❤️
These books remind me that although I have had difficult times in my life I have no idea what real suffering is. They inspire me to be braver and to be kinder. #photoadayNov16 #inspiring
