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Apr 07, 2019
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This is one of the most powerful books I have read, and because of that it is hard to take. I read one story a day because my heart couldn't take any more than that. But I loved it nonetheless.
The first two sentences of the first story were probably the most telling, and most brilliant, starting lines I have read. They will stay with me forever.
All of us walked around naked. The delousing is finally over, and our striped suits are back from the tanks of Cyclone B solution, an efficient killer o ...more
The first two sentences of the first story were probably the most telling, and most brilliant, starting lines I have read. They will stay with me forever.
All of us walked around naked. The delousing is finally over, and our striped suits are back from the tanks of Cyclone B solution, an efficient killer o ...more
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen by Tadeusz Borowski
Translated by Barbara Vedder
selected and translated by Barbara Vedder
Published 1959
rating: ★★★★
Pages: 180.
These are short stories inspired by the author's experience in a concentration camp. Mr Borowski is Polish. He is not Jewish. He was in Auschwitz and Dachau for the final few years from 1943 to 1945. He worked there and had it better (a relative term) than the Jewish people who came to Auschwitz. He committed suicide in 1951. Boro ...more
Translated by Barbara Vedder
selected and translated by Barbara Vedder
Published 1959
rating: ★★★★
Pages: 180.
These are short stories inspired by the author's experience in a concentration camp. Mr Borowski is Polish. He is not Jewish. He was in Auschwitz and Dachau for the final few years from 1943 to 1945. He worked there and had it better (a relative term) than the Jewish people who came to Auschwitz. He committed suicide in 1951. Boro ...more
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