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A five-page paper analyzing the view of the Holocaust expressed in two short stories from Tadeusz Borowski’s “This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentleman.” There is a spiritual element to the way most Jews approached their fate that Borowski’s narrator cannot empathize with at all; for him everything is a matter of sheer expediency, and people who refuse to cooperate with the necessary politics of camp life deserve not pity but contempt. Stories discussed are the title story “This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentleman” and “A Day at Harmenz”. Bibliography lists three sources.
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non-Jews, such as Borowski, were imprisoned in concentration camps right alongside Jews, generally as a result of some act which brought them into conflict with the Nazi government. As the
Simon Wiesenthal Center website notes, "Jews were singled out for total annihilation [but] millions of Gypsies, homosexuals, dissidents, communists, intellectuals, the mentally ill and handicapped, and many others were also
Nazi victims" ("Holocaust," moths.htm). Prior to his incarceration, Borowski had published poetry illegally, had definite communist leanings, and was considered by the Nazis to be subversive. In addition, he suffered
several episodes of clinical depression. Thus he had a number of strikes against him from the Nazi point of view, and in April of 1943 was deported with a transport
of prisoners to Auschwitz (Kott, 15). Because of his non-Jewish background, however, his views toward both his captors and his fellow prisoners are somewhat different than those normally reported
by concentration camp survivors. Its not that he views his incarceration in any more sanguine terms than the Jews with whom he was imprisoned. In his postwar writings, Borowski simply
seems less willing than the average Holocaust survivors to see the Jews as total victims of an undeserved genocidal extermination. Borowski, in fact, does not seem able to separate the
prisoners and the captors into villains and victims. He views the entire situation as evil, not evil perpetrated upon the innocent by the guilty, but more along the lines of
a sadomasochistic relationship. He seems to feel it is human nature, rather than the Nazi regime, which is inherently and irrevocably corrupt. Thus Borowskis fiction shows that for him,
it is impossible to view the Holocaust in black and white terms. This is a view of the Holocaust which is even darker and bleaker than its alternative, for at
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