In “Survival at Auschwitz” by Primo Levi, there are a few different themes present throughout this gruesome yet inspiring book. The themes that appear most in this book are the will to survive, as well as the theme of a man being stripped of everything that makes him a man. Throughout the book the reader sees the different ways in which the author and other camp members are tortured and kept awaiting their death. The reader also sees the camp members' will to survive, as their relationships develop despite being forced to live without family and friends far from their homes. Levi was an Italian Jew and chemist, who at the age of twenty-five, was arrested with an Italian resistance group and sent to the Nazi extermination camp of Auschwitz in Poland in late 1943. For ten terrible months, Levi endured the cruel and inhumane extermination where men were enslaved until the moment of death. Levi presents in depth the hopeless existence of the Auschwitz prisoners, whose most basic human rights were deprived, when in chapter 2 he states: “Ima...