a realistic and chilling report by an Auschwitz survivor:
An Auschwitz survivor tells us how the people the Nazis deported to this concentration camp lived, tried to survive and how mass murder by the Nazis was organized and carried out. Other former victims of deportation to extermination camps have told us the same stories, but the author of this book, the famous Polish writer Tadeusz Borowski, in particular succeeds in describing the terrible inhuman situation the camp inmates had to endure and the cruel treatment they suffered. I think it is impossible to... more info
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen - T Borowski:
It is difficult, with a moat of sixty years and an intellectual barricade of countless other World War II and Holocaust-related reading, to adequately begin to review this collection of short stories from Tadeusz Borowski. Falling back into the same reiteration of virtually all Holocaust/post-war writings is almost too easy: "This book serves as a reminder of the atrocities of war ...", "this book demonstrates how terrible man can be..." etc, etc, ad infinitum. Ad nauseum. The sorts of blanket recognitions... more info
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... more info
A remembrance of things past:
Imre Kertesz, a concentration camp survivor and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature often asks in his work: is there life after Auschwitz? Can one live with the ineffable guilt that accompanies survival against all odds? For Borowski the answer appears to be no. On July 1, 1951, at age 29, Tadeusz Borowski opened a gas valve, put his head in an oven and took his life. There is no small amount of irony in the fact that after escaping the gas of Auschwitz and Dachau Borowski would end his life in this... more info
