This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentleman (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Tadeusz Borowski
- First Published: 1948
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: World War II
- Setting: Auschwitz
- Principal Characters: The narrator, Henri
- Genres: Social realism, Short fiction
- Subjects: World War II, Survivalism, Holocaust, Jewish, Horror, Concentration camps
- Locales: Auschwitz-Berkenau
The Story
Through the first-person narrator, the author describes in harsh detail the daily routines and horrors of the concentration camp. The opening scene is a surreal picture of thousands of men and women, naked, waiting through the heat and boredom until another transport, carrying thousands of Jews to the gas chambers, arrives. Like the narrator's friend Henri, many of the inmates are members of the Canada Kommando, the labor gangs who work at unloading the transports. Henri and the narrator are introduced as they discuss the transports while lying in their barracks,...
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