11 April 1987 | Primo Levi passed away. He was an Italian Jewish writer & chemist. From 26 February 1944 a prisoner of the German Nazi #Auschwitz camp no. 174517.
In September 1947 he published his book "If this is a man". #poetry #history #OnThisDay #PrimoLevi
In September 1947 he published his book "If this is a man". #poetry #history #OnThisDay #PrimoLevi
You who live safe
In your warm houses;
You who find on returning in the evening
Hot food and friendly faces:
Consider if this is a man
Who works in the mud
Who knows no peace
Who fights for a bit of bread
Who dies because of a yes and because of a no
In your warm houses;
You who find on returning in the evening
Hot food and friendly faces:
Consider if this is a man
Who works in the mud
Who knows no peace
Who fights for a bit of bread
Who dies because of a yes and because of a no
Consider if this is a woman,
Without hair & without name
Without enough strength to remember
Vacant eyes & cold womb
Like a frog in the winter:
Reflect on the fact that this has happened:
These words I commend to you:
Inscribe them on your heart
When staying at home & going out,
Without hair & without name
Without enough strength to remember
Vacant eyes & cold womb
Like a frog in the winter:
Reflect on the fact that this has happened:
These words I commend to you:
Inscribe them on your heart
When staying at home & going out,
Going to bed and rising up;
Repeat them to your children:
Or may your house fall down,
Illness bar your way,
Your loved ones turn away from you.
Repeat them to your children:
Or may your house fall down,
Illness bar your way,
Your loved ones turn away from you.
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