This volume brings together Levi's two best-known memoirs. The first describes his months as a prisoner at Auschwitz, where he faced hunger, forced labour and the attempt to erase human dignity. The second follows his winding journey home through war-torn Eastern Europe after liberation. Read together, they form a single account of captivity, survival and return, told with calm precision, moral seriousness and flashes of humour. The pairing offers the clearest introduction to Levi's voice and to his place among the great witnesses of the twentieth century.