by Tadeusz Borowski
Just wow. This should be more widely read than it is.
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
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
This is a grim little book. It is best described as a few fictional stories and some short pieces, not quite stories sometimes, primarily about life in Auschwitz/Birkenau from the first person perspective of one of the camp's non-Jewish inmates (this is important). As a non-Jew the narrator's lot ...
Beautifully written but emotionally draining.
These stories chronicles of the way that concentration camp prisoners grasp at any wisp of power over one another, the power of possession of a slice of bread, of being placed as foreman of a work gang, and struggle to best one another (but constantly reminded that their very existence is threatened...
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