This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen

by Tadeusz Borowski

Borowski was an Auschwitz survivor… It’s a horrifying book. The narrator is someone who selfishly, so it seems, wants to protect himself from death and hunger – but at the same time he cannot but see what is happening: so he has this struggle which is horrifying in and of itself, and at the same time dehumanising and humanising. The struggle to stay a human being in a challenging situation is that if you want to stay a human being ethically, you have to stay a human being physically.