Survival In Auschwitz Analysis

Primo Levi’s novel Survival in Auschwitz is an autobiographical telling of Levi’s experiences throughout the Holocaust. Through Levi's telling of the novel, he tries his best to tell his story through an objective lens. He describes what happens to him and how he survives the camp. Due to the fact that Levi is subjected to many horrendous crimes against humanity he changes, anyone would after going through these things, but this does challenge the way scholars have resented the victim in the history of the Holocaust.
Levi figures out many tactic to keep himself alive. Levi’s job at the beginning was to unload tools and supplies and other things. Levi prefered to chose the larger objects to move because the work could be divided up easier,
All the prisoners that were clothed in strips were haftlinge. The criminals-prisoners wore a green star next to their numbers, the larger majority had to wear a red or yellow jewish star in next to their number because they were Jewish. The green triangles, or the criminal-prisoners complicated things because they were given a free hand over the rest of the Jews. The SS told the criminal-prisoners that they could control the Jews because the SS were not always there to be in charge. Also the lower their number was the more respect they had. This was because the longer you were there, the lower their number would be. The prisoners with the lower numbers got respect because they had survived so long in the camp without dying or being executed. The prisoner-criminals were kept separate from the Jews. The educated Jews were also kept separate from the rest of the Jews. Though some of the inmates are kept separate, the SS did not show prejudice toward anyone when taking their things. Even in the situations pertaining to the “drowned and the saved” in the novel there was no prejudice while taking their things. “In history and in life one sometime seems to glimpse a furious law which states : ‘to he that has, will be given; from he that has not, will be taken away’. In the Lager where man is alone and where the struggle for life is reduced to a primordial mechanism, this unjust law is openly in force, is recognized by all.” This was important to understand, because if they did not understand this then they would be executed sooner rather than later. Understanding this made their survival rate go