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1. Different Approaches: Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel

Two Holocaust survivors, Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel, take strikingly different approaches to studying the Holocaust. Levi's approach is direct, concrete, and secular. Wiesel's approach is indirect, abstract, and spiritual. Drawing primarily on Levi's first-person account of his ten months in a Nazi Concentration camp, Survival in Auschwitz (2) and Wiesel's novel, The Gates of the Forest (6), this essay considers the different approaches these two men take in bearing witness to the horrors of the holocaust.
In Survival in Auschwitz Primo Levi takes his readers by the hand and leads them into the daily life of a Nazi concentration camp and into the mind and heart of a survivor as victim. Levi alerts his readers in his prologue that his method is direct and personal. He admits that his need to tell his story is that of "an immediate and violent impulse," a necessary action he hopes will bring some measure of "interior......

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