http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/holocaust-survival Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Sat, 22 Aug 2026 05:56:09 -0400 Sat, 22 Aug 2026 05:56:09 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/204/moral-adaptation-in-primo-levis-survival-in-auschwitz By Ryan A. Piccirillo - The holocaust proved that morality is adaptable in extreme circumstances.  Traditional morality ceased to be so within the barbed wire of the concentration camps. Within the camps, prisoners were not treated like humans and therefore adapted animalistic behavior necessary to survive. The “ordinary moral world” (86) Primo Levi cites in Survival in Auschwitz, ceases to exist; the meanings and applications of words like “good,” “evil,” “just,” and “unjust” begin to fuse and the differences between these polar opposites become... Wed, 17 Mar 2010 09:05 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/204/moral-adaptation-in-primo-levis-survival-in-auschwitz