É isto um humano?: considerações sobre a obra bibliográfica de Primo Levi e a categoria de (in)humanidade

Abstract

During World War II dated from 1939 to 1945, the Nazi party in Germany, under the command of Hitler put in action a plan of mass destruction that culminated in the death of over 6 million people, the majority of Jewish origin. The key point of this plan was put in operation the Concentration Camps and Extermination Camps, where prisoners would be arrested and those who were not useful as slave labor would go to the incinerator, to the halls of gas or would be shot to death. In one of these camps was held the Jew Primo Levi that after surviving the Holocaust account not only his history, but his perspective of what is to be a man and in what thing the man turned into a concentration camp. Primo Levi's book "If This Is a Man?" also leads us to reflect on what is being a man in contemporary society and make connections from the past to the present, besides questioning about who is human and who is inhuman, both at the time of Holocaust as today.