“He will be a hollow man, reduced to suffering and needs, forgetful of dignity and restraint, for he who loses all often easily loses himself”(Levi 397). In war countries, people tend to lose a lot, sometimes they may lose everything. Survival in Auschwitz is a memoir by Primo Levi, an Italian chemist recounting his experience in Germany during the Holocaust. For the Grave of a Peace-Loving Man is a poem by Hans Magnus Enzensberger. European literature addresses the the topic of war in their countries and social injustice towards the people. European authors wrote of their experiences to protest the social injustice that took place in their countries. On the Bottom is a segment of the memoir, Survival in Auschwitz. In this segment, Levi recounts …show more content…
As more and more people were being killed, others began to believe the world was coming to an end. They would never know what was to come, or if they would survive it. “In this world shaken every day more deeply by the omens of its nearing end, amidst new terrors and hopes, with intervals of exasperated slavery,”(Levi 397). THe social injustice made people feel as though they did not have a chance in the world. People were different, so they were treated horribly. “;they see us reduced to ignoble slavery, without hair, without honor and without names, beaten everyday, more abject every day, and they never see in our eyes a light of rebellion, or of peace, or of faith.”(Levi 397).This was an example of the social injustice, what others thought of the people getting dehumanized as they no longer hed anything. People involved in the Holocaust had been stripped of their humanities. They no longer felt compassion towards others. “Their humanity is buried, or they themselves have buried it, under an offense received or inflicted on someone else.”(Levi 398). Whether they worked on or for the concentration camp, they all lost a sense of humanity which they want to recover. Social justice in Italy was very similar to that of