Introduction to Literature
Assigned Story
This way for gas
published in Munich in 1945,
Tadeusz and Bei uns in Auschwitz, an
Borowski account written in cooperation
with two fellow prisoners,
followed in 1946. He returned
Tadeusz Borowski was born
to Poland in June 1946, working
in 1922 in Zhytomyr, Ukraine.
as an editor in Warsaw.
Beginning in 1933 Borowski
lived in Poland, working as a
builder and studying Polish
philology at the underground
University of Warsaw. He
became later active as a prose
writer, journalist, and poet. He
was arrested in February 1943
and deported to Auschwitz soon
after. Borowski was brought to
Natzweiler- Daumergen
concentration camp in August
1944, and later was taken to
In 1949–50 he was a
Allach, an external camp of
correspondent in Berlin. In
Dachau. After his liberation in
1951, not yet twenty-nine years
April 1945 he was brought to
old, he committed suicide in
the displaced persons camp at
Warsaw. Borowski left behind
Freimann, near Munich. There
an extensive body of poetry
he met his fellow sufferer and
and prose, Utwory Zebrane
writer, Stanisław Wygodzki (see
(Collected Works, 1954), which
pp. 178–79).
is the source for most of the
Borowski's poetry collection poems excerpted here
Namen der Strömung was
“There can be no beauty if it is paid for by human injustice.“
— Tadeusz Borowski, This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen-
Assigned Story
This way for gas
published in Munich in 1945,
Tadeusz and Bei uns in Auschwitz, an
Borowski account written in cooperation
with two fellow prisoners,
followed in 1946. He returned
Tadeusz Borowski was born
to Poland in June 1946, working
in 1922 in Zhytomyr, Ukraine.
as an editor in Warsaw.
Beginning in 1933 Borowski
lived in Poland, working as a
builder and studying Polish
philology at the underground
University of Warsaw. He
became later active as a prose
writer, journalist, and poet. He
was arrested in February 1943
and deported to Auschwitz soon
after. Borowski was brought to
Natzweiler- Daumergen
concentration camp in August
1944, and later was taken to
In 1949–50 he was a
Allach, an external camp of
correspondent in Berlin. In
Dachau. After his liberation in
1951, not yet twenty-nine years
April 1945 he was brought to
old, he committed suicide in
the displaced persons camp at
Warsaw. Borowski left behind
Freimann, near Munich. There
an extensive body of poetry
he met his fellow sufferer and
and prose, Utwory Zebrane
writer, Stanisław Wygodzki (see
(Collected Works, 1954), which
pp. 178–79).
is the source for most of the
Borowski's poetry collection poems excerpted here
Namen der Strömung was
“There can be no beauty if it is paid for by human injustice.“
— Tadeusz Borowski, This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen-
