When I was asked to do the jackets for Primo Levi's memoirs from Auschwitz, "If This Is a Man" and "The Truce", I wanted to give the feeling of detention, so the covers were split up in cells separated by heavy black walls. Maps, images and floor plans from the camps along with photos from my archives are used to convey the desolation of the inmates.

On the back covers, I used the barcodes in extreme enlargement to symbolize the bars of the prisons.