num_pages: 180
description: Tadeusz Borowski’s concentration camp stories were based on his own experiences surviving Auschwitz and Dachau. In spare, brutal prose he describes a world where where the will to survive overrides compassion and prisoners eat, work and sleep a few yards from where others are murdered; where the difference between human beings is reduced to a second bowl of soup, an extra blanket or the luxury of a pair of shoes with thick soles; and where the line between normality and abnormality vanishes. Published in Poland after the Second World War, these stories constitute a masterwork of world literature.
language: English
title: This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
titlecomplete: This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
genres: Classics, History, World War II, Polish Literature, Short Stories, Poland, Holocaust, War, Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 9234
places: Auschwitz
publisher: Penguin