The book, Survival at Auschwitz, was a very intense depiction of the events that occurred in the Nazi concentration camp called Auschwitz. Levi was captured on 13 December 1943, at the age of twenty-four, by the fascist militia, when he admitted to being an Italian citizen of Jewish race. Much of the first chapter is about how Levi was unaware of how horrible the camps would be. He begins to experience these true horrors when he is taken aboard the train for the journey to Auschwitz. He is packed into a train car along with hundreds of other Jews who are deprived of food and water and left to freeze on the way to the extermination camp. He goes on to describe the daily events in the camp which primarily used Jews as a workforce, basically slaves. They received a meager meal consisting of a ration of bread and a little water to drink. I like how Levi described the meal time as "the distribution of the sacred gray slab, which seems gigantic in your neighbor's hand, and in your hand so small that it makes you cry", obviously referring to the small piece of bread ...