The European antisemitism had a turning point in the 20th century through the Nazi machines that unleashed the Holocaust, as the worst tragedy of humanity, affecting every area of life and civilization. The concentration and extermination camps, expanded throughout Europe, were transformed into veritable factories of death and dehumanization. The historiography has tried to study this phenomenon from different angles, models and paradigms, without achieving a consensus in the face of the horror of the twentieth century. The italian Primo Levi was a witness of that horror and thanks to a series of factors, he was able to survive Auschwitz-Monowitz and tell about that experience. Through Levi's. experience, this article seeks to unravel those historical categories that allow us a greater understanding of the concentrationist phenomenon through the historical analysis of the historical categories classified in the structure of the story, the conjuncture, time and space as central factors in his narrative.
Ancalao, A. (2020). The categories of historical analysis in a survival story: The Case of Primo Levi. Cuadernos Judaicos, (37), 313–350. https://doi.org/10.5354/0718-8749.2020.60591
