Monday, September 27, 2010

Jean Samuel

A Holocaust survivor who later became a pharmacist -- via the Independent. He is made immemorial as remembered by fellow concentration camp inmate Primo Levi in Chapter 2 of Levi's book "If This Is a Man." For the last 25 years of his life, he worked vigorously as a witness and testifier to the horrors he underwent, and the possibility of keeping one's humanity from being extinguished by it.

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