Series: Auschwitz Trilogy
by Author Philip Roth
Book
Survival in Auschwitz (1995)
In his book Survival in Auschwitz, Primo Levi uses the phrase “the demolition of man” to refer to the process by which the Nazis attempted to, and largely succeeded in, stripping the inmates of the concentration camps of their humanity.1 This powerful phrase accurately summarizes the process of d...