ABSTRACT
The definition of Häftling is prisoner. But the word prisoner does not, and cannot, capture what it must have been like to have lived through Auschwitz. Primo Levi survived Auschwitz, but forever remained a prisoner to its memory. The memory of Auschwitz, though, eventually overpowered and killed him. Primo Levi committed suicide like many other Jews returning to life after Auschwitz.
