Primo Levi Timeline

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  • 1987 BCE

    Died on 11 April

  • 1963 BCE

    Levi received his first annual Premio Campiello literary award

  • 1948 BCE

    In October Levi's first child, his doughter LIsa, was born

  • 1947 BCE

    Levi married Lucia in September

  • 1946 BCE

    Levi completed the manuscript "If this is a man" on 22 December

  • 1945 BCE

    Levi was liberated on 27 January by the Red Army

  • 1944 BCE

    He is sent to Auschwitz

  • 1943 BCE

    In October he join the liberal Giustizia e LIbertà partisan movement

  • 1942 BCE

    In March Levi was working in the mine when he lost his father

  • 1941 BCE

    Graduates from the University of Turin with a degree in chemistry

  • 1941 BCE

    In December Levi secretly got a job at asbestos mine at San Vittore

  • 1921 BCE

    Levi's little sister was born

  • 1919 BCE

    Primo Levi was born on 31 July in Turin, Italy