If This Is a Man

If This Is a Man

Original first edition cover
Author	Primo Levi
Original title	Se questo è un uomo
Translator	Stuart Woolf
Language	Italian
Genre	Memoir
Publisher	De Silva (Italian) Einaudi (Italian) The Orion Press (English)
Publication date	1947
Publication place	Italy
Published in English	1959
Pages	179 pp

If This Is a Man (Italian: Se questo è un uomo [se kˈkwesto ˌɛ un ˈwɔːmo]; United States title: Survival in Auschwitz) is a memoir by Jewish Italian writer Primo Levi, first published in 1947. It describes his arrest as a member of the Italian anti-fascist resistance during the Second World War, and his incarceration in the Auschwitz concentration camp (Monowitz) from February 1944 until the camp was liberated on 27 January 1945.