r any kind of sustenance was the main concern of both Missy and Primos lives. Also they both lived each day in fear of their lives. Primo was in constant fear of getting selected to go to the gas chamber or just dying of starvation. Missy feared getting caught by the Soviet army, getting killed by bombing and the Nazis. She was involved in some things that if she were caught, she would definitely be killed. Both Missy and Primo spent their lives in constant transition from one living arrangement to another as well. Primo was always being shifted from one barracks to another to the infirmary to another barracks. Missy was always leaving one small apartment to another tiny apartment, from city to city. They both had to deal with having no home, no identity and no place of comfort. While everything that happened to Primo may have been a form of torture inflicted on him by the Nazis, and Missys devastation was just due to the war raging along, both still suffered.As one can see, these two books about World War II can be looked at on different levels of comparison and contrast. It may seem at first that they are only similar on the surface, but once one looks deeper into each story they have a number of similarities. They have parallels on every level of human life and survival when faced with desperation and devastation. To look at World War II through these two perspectives gives the reader a much more accurate and realistic picture of the war than any history book ever could. Both Survival in Auschwitz and Berlin Diaries give a complete real life sense to a war that can often seem unreal or unbelievable in modern times....
