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1. If This Is A Man/The Truce by Primo Levi. This book sums the frailty of humanity. An autobiographical book of a Jewish chemist in Italy during the Nazi era. The story talks about his adapting to concentration camps and seeing many of his colleagues killed later... https://twitter.com/randomkwame/status/1243145358294876161
He is reduced to nothing and has to live like a savage to prolong his existence. I don't even want to go into details but the holocaust was one of the worst things that could ever happen to humanity. The 2nd part of the book talks about his being free (he was one of very....
...few people to make it out of the camps alive) and how he now has to relearn the basics of living just to fit in the post-war society.
Sighh i didn't want to continue but Primo eventually finds success in life and writes sought after books on Chemistry but the horrors of the holocaust still haunt him. For me the lesson learnt was that we'd do anything to delay death no matter how terrible. We know it's...
...inevitable but there's that innate desire to live.
