Books to shed light on the future generations

« If we die in silence as our enemies wish, the world will not know what man has been able to do and what he can still do : The world will not know itself. This is what Primo Levi’s survivor noted, who died in Turin, a few months later, in 1987. A remarks that echoes what he had written a few years ago: ” The lesson of the camps is the fraternity in the abjection ». Author of novels, essays, news, and If he’s a man , Essential and singular testimony on his concentrationnaire experience, Primo Levi had also granted a long interview on the evening of his life, which is reissued today, in pocket format: The Zone grise. The former Auschwitz Deportees undermined the victim-bourreau dichotomy there. Flurgling zone, ambiguous in-between, which marked everyday life in the camps in the camps, and which makes any judgment impossible, at least perilous, between executioners and victims …