What consumed much of Primo Levi's thought after he was released from the Nazi concentration camps was the experiences he had and the time he spent in Monowitz and Auschwitz.
“I am constantly amazed by man's inhumanity to man."”
The people closest to him said that he was never the same man he was before he went into the concentration camps. He was forever scarred from the experiences he has in Monowitz and Auschwitz and never forgave himself for being one of the few that survived.
One of the main points of Primo Levi's writings was not to make people pity him for what he went through, but he wanted people all over the world and for many centuries to come to realize what the Jewish people went through and never to forget the people who died in the camps.
He tells his readers, "Even in this place one can survive, and therefore one must want to survive, to tell the story, to bear witness; and that to survive we must force ourselves to save at least the skeleton, the scaffolding, the form of civilization. We are slaves, deprived of every right, exposed to every insult, condemned to certain death, but we still possess one power, and we must defend it with all our strength for it is the last — the power to refuse our consent."
"The aims of life are the best defense against death."
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