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Ladies and Gentlemen, to the Gas Chamber by Tadeusz Borowski
This story is about the Holocaust of the Jews in the death camp of Auschwitz. The narrator, Tadek, expresses his experiences and participation with the Nazis to executes the Jewish victims through gas chambers. Tadek’s job is to possess the valuables of new incoming Jews and helps to deposit the corpses. Sometime he has to participate in the barbaric treatment of the Jews. Tadek feels sickening about his duty but he has no choice just like everyone else in the death camp. Everyone turns inhuman in order to survive. For example, the Canada group depends on stealing food and goods from the incoming transport of victims. According to Tadek, the plump Marseillaise says, “they can’t run out of people or we’d all be finished in the camp. We all live on what they bring” (Borowski, 2774). The Canada group shows no humanity knowing that the victims on these trains will later be executed through gas chamber. However, they still hope for new incoming transports in order to meet their survival.
Although Tadek is allowed to live in the death camp, his work being force to participate in the Holocaust makes him sick and shameful. Tadek suffers mentally and commited suicide later. This tells us that everyone in the death camps suffers, not just the victims but also those who participate in the Holocaust as well. Do you think Tadek commited suicide because he feels guilty?