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Original Title:	Proszę państwa do gazu
ISBN:	0140186247 (ISBN13: 9780140186246)
Edition Language:	English URL https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/293306/this-way-for-the-gas-ladies-and-gentlemen-by-tadeusz-borowski/9780140186246/
Setting:	Auschwitz(Poland)

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Title	:	This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
Author	:	Tadeusz Borowski
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 180 pages
Published	:	November 26th 1992 by Penguin Classics (first published 1947)
Categories	:	World War II. Holocaust. Short Stories. History. Nonfiction. War. European Literature. Polish Literature

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Tadeusz Borowski's concentration camp stories were based on his own experiences surviving Auschwitz and Dachau. In spare, brutal prose he describes a world where the will to survive overrides compassion and prisoners eat, work and sleep a few yards from where others are murdered; where the difference between human beings is reduced to a second bowl of soup, an extra blanket or the luxury of a pair of shoes with thick soles, and where the line between normality and abnormality completely vanishes. Published in Poland after the Second World War, these stories constitute a masterwork of world literature.

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"Great columns of smoke rise from the crematoria and merge above into a huge black river which very slowly floats across the sky over Birkenau and disappears beyond the forests."Naked, famished bodies, with sunken faces and deathly eyes, congregate on their wooden bunks.Drenched in sweat from an unbearable heat they munch on stale bread with burning throats as dry as scorched sand. Tadeusz Borowski is one of them.Outside the cattle carts are arriving, and that can only mean one thing. The

This book made me feel and understand the horrors of Auschwitz like no other book I've read. Borowski is able to make the reader feel how very mundane and acceptable killing and torture became to the inmates. He uses a mix of humor and stark, in-your-face descriptions in relating his stories of camp life and of the atrocities. This puts the reader in the position of smiling at and cringing at one and the same time. For instance, Inmates playing a soccer game are having a good time, but don't bat

Told from the vantage of a very young, Polish, political prisoner, this one was unique. Having read a fair bit of holocaust literature, what separates this is that it has no Jewish point of view at all, and does not decry the evils of the Nazi targeting this genocide. The other unusual feature of this story is that it was written shortly after the events themselves. Without the benefit of hindsight and perspective, the entire context is missing from this narrative. In fact, the horrors are

This book is so powerful it can make you vomit while reading.This a holocaust book. I have read so many of these but this one is the most brutal in terms of vividly describing the scenes in the concentration camp - Auschwitz. I would not say that this is bereft of the haunting prose of say W. G. Sebald's "Austerlitz", the intriguing thesis of Viktor E. Frankl's "The Man's Search for Meaning" or the palpable honesty of Elie Wiesel's "Night". (Note: the most popular Holocaust book by Anne Frank,

I began my book Emergency with a quote from this book: There is no crime a man will not commit to save himself. Yet Id never read it. I should have. The book is an anthology of short stories by the Polish poet Tadeusz Borowski, all based on his real-life experiences in Auschwitz, and other Nazi prisons and concentration camps, as a Polish political prisoner. It is unlike anything Ive read before on the subject, because the focus is not so much on the brutality of the SS guards, but on the

For the last couple of years, since I been trying to quit smoking, I have taken to carrying around with me during the day whatever book I am currently reading, fitting in a few pages during my breaks at work. Often people will peer at the cover, mutter the title to themselves, and then carry on with their own business. The other day a friend of mine came over to the table at which I was sitting, picked up This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen, turned it over, read the title and winced. I

Translator's NoteIntroduction--This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen--A Day at Harmenz--The People Who Walked On--Auschwitz, Our Home (A Letter)--The Death of Schillinger--The Man with the Package--The Supper--A True Story--Silence--The January Offensive--A Visit--The World of Stone