The Holocaust attests that morality is adaptable under severe conditions. Traditional morality has ceased to be contained in the barbed wires of concentration camps. Inside the camps, prisoners were not treated like humans and therefore adapted animal behavior was necessary for survival. The “ordinary moral world” (86) to which Primo Levi refers in his autobiographical novel If This Is a Man, ceases to exist; the meanings and applications of words like “good,” “evil,” “just,” and “unjust” begin to merge, and the differences between these opposites become vague. Continued existence in Auschwitz required the abolition of self-respect and human dignity. Vulnerability to infinite dehumanization certainly leads to being dehumanized, pushing one to resort to mental, physical and social adaptation in order to preserve one's life and personality. It is in this adaptation that the line between right and wrong begins to distort. Primo Levi, a survivor, recounts his imprisonment in the Monowitz-Buna concentration camp. Starting from his arrest by the fascist militias in December 1943, the text conforms to the experience lived by Primo Levi in ​​the following twelve months as a prisoner in the National Socialist concentration camp of Monowitz-Buna, seven kilometers east of Auschwitz. Arriving at the camp, the first-person narrator, Primo Levi, a doctor of chemistry, immerses himself in a world that leaves him amazed; simply by taking literary notes on Dante's Inferno he can be able to draw its outlines. After the degrading reception procedures, he realizes that the goal of the place where they were taken is the psychological and physical devastation of the inmates. The inside... the center of the card... is essential for survival. To live in peace you need to adapt your social and behavioral needs. Like the “literalized” accounts of survival of Jean Améry or Elie Wiesel, If This Is a Man has served as a reference for numerous interpretations and reflections in the fields of cultural studies and philosophy. References Primo Levi: Survival in Auschwitz: The Nazi Assault on Humanity (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996) [first published as If This Is a Man], p. 86.Ibid. P. 67Ibid. P. 130Ibid. P. 47Ibid. P. 44Primo Levi: From a letter to the translator of the German version, reproduced in The Drowned and the Saved (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988), p. 174.Ibid. P. 83Primo Levi: Survival in Auschwitz: The Nazi Assault on Humanity (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996) [first published as If This Is a Man], p. 62.Ibid. P. 59