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This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
''This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen,'' also known as ''Ladies and Gentlemen, to the Gas Chamber,'' is a collection of short stories by Tadeusz Borowski, which were inspired by the author's concentration camp experience. The original title in the Polish language was ''Pożegnanie z Marią'' (''Farewell to Maria'').〔( Tadeusz Borowski, Barbara Vedder, ''This way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen'', Penguin Classics ) at Google Books〕 Following two year imprisonment at Auschwitz, Borowski had been liberated from the Dachau concentration camp in the spring of 1945, and went on to write his collection in the following years in Stalinist Poland.〔 The book, translated in 1959, was featured in the Penguin's series "Writers from the Other Europe" from the 1970s.〔
==Overview==
Borowski was arrested by the Gestapo in 1942. He was not a part of the Polish resistance movement in World War II against the Nazis in Warsaw, but his girlfriend took part in it. She was captured, and sent to a concentration camp. Because Borowski was so much in love with her, he went to a known resistance meeting place in order to get arrested – in an attempt to go to the same concentration camp as she – unaware of the enormous scale of the system of Nazi concentration camps in occupied Poland. He was caught and subsequently incarcerated at the notorious Auschwitz death camp for two years. Borowski survived. He was sent on a death march to the Dachau concentration camp ahead of the Soviet advance, and in the spring of 1945 had been liberated by the US Seventh Army.〔Chris Power (2011-08-25), ( "A brief survey of the short story part 35: Tadeusz Borowski ) Books, The Guardian.〕
Borowski was not a Jew. He was detained at Auschwitz and Dachau as a political prisoner. His views were therefore different from the postwar narrations of the Jewish concentration camp survivors. In a searing and shockingly satirical prose Borowski detailed what life-and-death felt like in the German concentration camps,〔Karen Bernardo (2014), ( This Way For The Gas by Tadeusz Borowski. ) Summary & Analysis. Storybites.com.〕 including his revelations about the poisonous relationships between the prisoners themselves.〔Joanna Lenartowicz (2011/11/30), ( This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen - Tadeusz Borowski. ) Literature at Culture.pl.〕
The short stories in his collection are linked by the themes as well as the presence of the main character Tadek, who serves the role of the narrator as well as the book's focal point. To a large degree the narrations are autobiographical. Tadek is a condensed version of Tadeusz and there is a high likelihood that Borowski wrote only from his personal experience. However, the two personalities (the author, and the narrator) themselves are different. Tadek is a survivalist with a hard shell. Borowski, as described by his followers and people who knew him well, was a heart-centered leader and a man who nobly helped others and did not worry about himself.〔
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