His best-known works include If This Is a Man ( 1947 ) ( U.S. : Survival in Auschwitz ) , his account of the year he spent as a prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland ; and his unique work , The Periodic Table ( 1975 ) , linked to qualities of the elements , which the Royal Institution of Great Britain named the best science book ever written .
His best-known book is If This Is a Man , a true story about his time as a prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II .