The Drowned and the Saved Author:Primo Levi, Raymond Rosenthal (Translator) Levi writes of the moral collapse that occurred in Auschwitz and the fallibility of human memory that allows such atrocities to recur. Levi breaks his book into eight essays, ranging from topics like the unreliability of memory to how violence twists both the victim and the victimizer. He shares how difficult it is for him to tell his experience... more »s with his children and friends. He also debunks the myth that most of the Germans were in the dark about the Final Solution or that Jews never attempted to escape the camps. Levi's last book published before his death in 1987.« less