Primo Levi refers to the experience in the Lager as the new bible for one reason, and one reason only. Levi's experience during the Holocaust bears a striking resemblance to the story of Moses in the bible, both of which emotionally illustrate the harshness of human suffering, and the will to survive. In Moses' time his people, the Hebrews, were persecuted in a way such that each first born child was sentenced to death. As in Moses' case, Levi and most European Jews of that time were persecuted against, mostly through concentration camps and lagers. In these Lagers, a type of prison camp, guarded by German SS officers, if you were 'fortunate' enough to stay alive
             through the selection processes, you were condemned to a living death sentence of work, exhaustion, and starvation. Both circumstances taking place in their respective times in history, both with fascist leaders or dictators with warped senses of reality. In the case of Moses, the King of Egypt played the role; in Levi's case, Hitler, both evil and demented men in their own right. Yet in both cases a tragic theme is evident, overwhelming proof of extreme human suffering, and the ability of human will.
             Primo Levi was an Italian Jew who was eventually captured by the 3rd Reich, the German army, at the age of 23. He was moved to a Lager, better known as a concentration camp. The name of which was Auschwitz. In these Lagers terrible terrible things took place, the attempted eradication of the Jewish peoples in order to provide Europe with a supreme race. This eradication was by no means done in a humane fashion, these Jews were captured, separated from their families and placed in the camps as if they weren't even people at all, treated like animals, forced laborers. They were over-worked, physically and mentally abused, and starved. If they resisted or were incapable of the tasks asked of them they were put to death. This a...