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This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen

By: Tadeusz Borowski, Barbara Vedder - translator, Michael Kandel - translator
Narrated by: Roy McCrerey
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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.

For more than 70 years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Learners trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

©1959, 1967, 1976 Maria Borwoski, Penguin Books Ltd, Jan Kott (P)2021 Upfront Books 20th Century Anthologies & Short Stories Biographical Fiction Classics Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Military Modern Short Stories Wars & Conflicts World War II

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People lose their humanity in order to survive being sent to Nazi concentration camps, even helping to separate fellow prisoners into labor camps or gas chamber.

Chilling and disturbing

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There are no words for how astounding this work is in its breadth. The way Tadeusz Borowski tells the story is so matter of fact that it leaves the reader shocked. But it's a bolt that is needed. It's real, visceral. It's human beings at their most primitive, just trying to survive. And knowing the horror of Borowski's life in general, and his tragic death, it adds an even greater depth to the reading. READ THIS BOOK. This shouldn't be an option. It should be mandatory. And Roy McCrerey is a revelation.

REQUIRED Reading

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I am not sure why this book does not garner more attention in literary circles. It is a remarkable account of life in Nazi prison camps.

Powerful!

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Borowski writes, for a young man, with a maturity that one can assume was arrived at through his experience with great suffering. His detailing of the experience of those in camps that were not Jewish is highly valuable if we are to understand how the tiers of genocide not only occur but are carried out. “Though his hands have passed thousands.” How does one live with oneself when they are forced to become a part of the machine that is responsible for human slavery? He did not. His suicide is perhaps the greatest testament to his small body of work.

Enjoy listening, though not for the sensitive. There are great detailings of physical torture.

-Noah Balfour

Exceptional - there is none better

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Beautiful, heartbreaking, and at times shocking. 10/10 Do NOT miss this one. The writing is perfect, you can tell he was a poet

Beautiful and moving

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I read this book in 1987 while on a train to Auschwitz while I was in college. I was on my way to visit my dead ancestors.  I recall the book being beautifully written, despite its grim topic. I thought of the book recently, 40 years later, and listened to it on audible. I’m glad I did. It reminded me of the countless people I met in my youth who lived through the second world war. They soon will be gone but this book will remain when I too turn to dust.

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