The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Primo Levi

On January 27, 1945, Soviet troops liberated Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi concentration camp. Italian chemist and writer Primo Levi was among those freed. The author of several books, novels, short story collections, and poems, Levi is best-known for If This Is a Man (aka Survival in Auschwitz), his account of the year he spent in the death camp, and his memoir told through the metaphor of chemistry The Periodic Table. January 27 is designated by the United Nations General Assembly as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

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