Primo Levi was an Italian Jewish anti-fascist who was arrested in 1943, during World War II. The memoir “If This Is a Man,” written immediately after Levi's release from the Auschwitz concentration camp, not only provides readers with Levi's personal testimony about his experience at Auschwitz, but also invites readers to think about the implications of life in the Auschwitz concentration camp. concentration camp for our understanding of human identity. In Levi's own words, the memoir was written to provide "material for a leisurely study of certain aspects of the human mind." The absence of emotive words and use of a distant tone in Levi's first-person narration allows readers to visualize the cold, harsh reality of Auschwitz without stripping away historical credibility. Levi's use of poetic and literary devices such as list, repetition, and symbolism to remove personal identification; the use of rhetorical questions and the inclusion of foreign languages ​​in the denial of basic human rights; the use of bestial metaphors and the choice of vocabulary which directly compares the prisoner of Auschwitz to animals; and the use of extensive metaphor and symbolism in the character Null Achtzehn all reveal the concept of dehumanization that has been applied to Jews and other minorities. Dehumanization often begins with the removal of personal identification. An important linguistic technique that Levi uses to mark this stage of dehumanization is the list. The use of listing can be seen in the quote: “nothing belongs to us anymore; They took away our clothes, our shoes and even our hair.” The use of lists effectively highlights the unintentional elimination of physical goods that help a person define themselves or express their identity in the middle of a paper......and they have been degraded to the status of sub humans. level that is often associated with qualities considered inferior to those of humans, such as lack of self-control, unintelligence, and immorality. Prisoners have also been compared to sheep, trying to hide when in a vulnerable situation. The sheep is known for the universal symbol of innocence and goodness, but as the tone of the passage is tinged with despair and fear, it reminds readers that sheep often need the protection and supervision of a shepherd and thus underlines the feeling of vulnerability. The Germans consider them prisoners of different species; "This something in front of me belongs to a species which it is obviously expedient to eliminate", they also use the word "fressen" to describe the prisoner's way of eating, which is "the way of eating animals".”.