On page 65 of Survival in Ausc
Primo Levi refers to the experience in the Lager as the new bible for one reason, and one reason only. Levi's experience during the Holocaust bears a striking resemblance to the story of Moses in the bible, both of which emotionally illustrate the harshness of human suffering, and the will to survive. In Moses' time his people, the Hebrews, were persecuted in a way such that each first born child was sentenced to death. As in Moses' case, Levi and most European Jews of that time were persecuted against, mostly through concentration camps and lagers. In these Lagers, a type of prison camp, guarded by German SS officers, if you were 'fortunate' enough to stay alive through the selection processes, you were condemned to a living death sentence of work, exhaustion, and starvation. Both circumstances taking place in their respective times in history, both with fascist leaders or dictators with warped senses of reality. In the case of Moses, the King of Egypt played the role; in Levi's case, Hitler, both evil and demented men in their own right. Yet in both cases a tragic theme is evident, overwhelming proof of extreme human suffering, and the ability of human will. Primo Levi was an Italian Jew who was eventually captured
The tales of both Moses and Levi show elements of both human suffering, and the will to survive. These motifs can be seen oozing from each of these two stories. The extreme lows of the inhumane treatment of the Jews and the Hebrews, and physical and mental abuse that goes along with that. To the emotional highs experienced with Levi, and the struggle and ability to survive and with Moses in the exodus of his people from a land of terror in Egypt. Both Protagonists lend us examples to live by, and give us the ability to put our own lives under the microscope, examine ourselves, and compare out fortune to the misfortune of others. And enable us to not take for granted the physical freedom which we exercise, the emotional and psychological freedom we can express, and the political and ethical freedom which we assume. In the book of exodus a similar situation is depicted, Moses the infant son of a Hebrew woman was hid in a basket, along the reeds of the Nile. He was hidden there by his mother for his protection, reason being the first born son of any Israelite was to be put to death, by order of the King of Egypt, a decree to protect his thrown. This baby was found by the pharaoh's daughter and taken in by her, raised by a Hebrew mother. One day when Moses, the boy, be
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