This way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen; and other stories. Selected and translated by B....

This way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen; and other stories. Selected and translated by B. Vedder | Tadeusz Borowski | TALES FROM THE DARK SIDE...

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	This way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen; and other stories. Selected and translated by B. Vedder Tadeusz Borowski Viking Press, 1967 average customer review:based on 2 reviews
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You can even get complacent living in hell

This is not an easy book to read. The stories included within are penetrating in how they look at people living in a man-made hell, and how you can become inured to the sufferings of you friends, neighbors, relatives, countrymen and just plain human beings. The fatalism that accompanies these stories of life in Birkenau and Auschwitz, where each day he watched twenty thousand people arrive in cattle cars, a being taken directly to the gas chambers.

What are the feelings of the inmates of the camp, who spend most of their time helping to empty the cars, taking away the last possessions of people, who have no idea they are to be killed. You develop the cold realization, that these people are condemned and there's nothing you can do to stop it. So you look at what you are doing as a job, and spend your time staying alive and away from those (the SS and the Kapos) who determine whether you are strong enough to work.

The saddest part of this book, is that after having survived three years in the camps, in 1951, at the age of 29, Borowski, haunted by what he saw and did in the camps, took his own life; he did it by turning on the gas from his apartment oven.

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TALES FROM THE DARK SIDE...

In the annals of holocaust literature, this is one of the more unflinching collection of death camp stories, as it depicts the stark reality of the desperate situation of those ensconced in concentration camps, where the final solution was frantically put into play. The stories are of the unimaginable and the nearly unendurable, replete with the inherent pathos of the situation of the truly desperate. It is shows the desensitization that takes place in order for one to survive the horrors of a death camp. It is an unapologetic dissertation of what camp life was truly like for those for whom surviving was the bottom line. It also shows how the Jewish people were clearly singled out for mass extermination.

The author himself survived two death camps, Auschwitz and Dachau, where he had been imprisoned from 1943 to 1945, as a young man in his early twenties. Born in the Ukraine in 1922 to Polish parents who spent time in Siberian labor camps, the author was no stranger to hardship. Yet, he was little prepared for man's inhumanity to man. His time in the death camps was to form an indelible impression on him, resulting in this collection of stories, which chronicle man's inhumanity to man. It shows how camp culture made all those within its sphere participants in its reign of terror and in the final solution. In the end, having survived the unimaginable, the author committed suicide in 1951, choosing to gas himself to death. The irony inherent in his choice of death is not lost upon the discerning reader.

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