My Name Is Primo Michele Levi - 953 Words

Diary Entry 1 July 31, 1943 My name is Primo Michele Levi. Todays my birthday. I am 24 years old, born in Turin, Italy. I have one sibling, Anne Maria Levi. Anne Maria and I have always been very close, I was always considered small and shy, and I was a frequent target of bullying. I also thought poorly of myself aswell, I often thought others viewed me as ugly and scrawny. I had also excelled academically, always having straight A’s and was the smartest student in my grade. By early teens I had liked chemistry a lot. When I was 11 I entered the Massimo d Azeglio Royal Gymnasium. In class I was the youngest, the shortest, and the smartest. I was also the only Jewish kid. When I was 13 I joined the Avanguardisti movement. I joined the ski division, and spent every Saturday during the season on the skiing above Turin. When I was 17, I failed my final exam. It was my first bad grade ever. At the end of the summer I took the exam again and passed, and in October. I got into the University of Turin to study c hemistry. I spent three months taking classes, and in February, after passing my oral exam, I was chosen to do a full-time chemistry class. In 1941, I graduated. Today, my family and I are fleeing to northern Italy, where we plan to join an Italian resistance group. Diary Entry 2 February 21, 1944 I haven t written in a while. I didn t plan to, but with my family and I captured I do not have much else but this journal. First, we were taken over by the Germans, who