15. Die drei Leute vom Labor

In chapter 15, Levi mainly talks about how uncertain their future is and how they are lucky to survive throughout their duration in the camp. Then, Primo Levi is chosen one of the three to work as specialists in the Laboratory. Inside this Laboratory, he is ensured with the survival of the cold winter and less suffering from hunger because he was not subject to physical labor. He describes how he remembers many objects and is happy to see familiar sites of when he was a free man. He states how the condition he is currently in is better than those who work in the cold how he received a book to refresh his analytical skills. Due to the good conditions that he received inside the labs, nothing had changed outside. Primo Levi, by being chosen for the Laboratory was able to experience a closer form of humanity because of the treatment that was different from the ‘outside’ but on the other hand, others were still fighting against death and were in constant fear of selections.

Moreover, in this chapter, Primo describes how 174,000 Italian Jews were first arrived at Auschwitz and how only twenty-one now survived. This tells a great deal of how many people were exterminated by the Germans during the Holocaust. I was absolutely stunned.