title: The Black Hole of Auschwitz
text: # The Black Hole of Auschwitz
  
  The Black Hole of Auschwitz is a collection of essays by the Italian author Primo Levi. Originally published under the Italian title L'asimmetria e la vita (Asymmetry and Life) it has two distinct halves. The first half, The Black Hole of Auschwitz is a collection of essays, often prefaces to other books, which make a plea against Holocaust denial. The second half, Other People's Trades, is a mixture of essays on a wide variety of subjects. All of these works were collected together in the production of the Italian anthology of Levi's works, Opere, in 1997.
  
  ## Contents
  
  PART I: THE BLACK HOLE OF AUSCHWITZ
  
  Deportees. Anniversary The Monument at Auschwitz 'Arbeit Macht Frei' The Time of Swastikas Preface to the German Edition of If This Is a Man Preface to the School Edition of The Truce Resistance in the Camps Preface to Y. Katzenelson's The Song of the Murdered Jewish People Note to the Theatre Version of If This Is a Man Preface to L. Poliakov's Auschwitz To the Young: Preface to If This Is a Man A Past We Thought Would Never Return Preface to J. Presser's The Night of the Girondins Films and Swastikas Letter to Latanzio:'Resign' Women to the Slaughter So That the SS do not Return It began with Kristallnacht Jean Amery, Philosopher and Suicide But We Were There Concentration Camp at Italy's Door No Return to the Holocausts of the Past (Nazi Massacres, Crowds and the TV) Images of Holocaust Europe in Hell Anne Frank, the Voice of History Seekers of Lies to Deny the Holocaust To the Visitor You Tell Me if This is a Fortunate Jew The Pharaoh with the Swastika Preface to H. Langbein's People in Auschwitz Why See These Images Again? Preface to R. Hoss's Commandant of Auschwitz The Black Hole of Auschwitz Preface to La vita offesa To Our Generation
  
  PART II: OTHER PEOPLE'S TRADES
  
  The Writer Who is Not a Writer Racial Intolerance Preface to L. Caglioti's I due voiti della chimica (The Two Faces of Chemistry) We See No Other Adam in the Neighbourhood Horseshoe Nails Let's See How Much has Come True Our First Ancestors were Not Animals Collectors of Torments Brute Force Note to Franz Kafka's The Trial Asymmetry and Life Preface to Jews in Turin Itinerary of a Jewish Writer With the Key of Science Preface to The Jews of Eastern Europe What was it that Burned Up in Space? The Plague has No Frontiers The Community of Venice and its Ancient Cemetery The Philosopher-Engineer and his Forbidden Dreams Guest of Captain Nemo
  
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