The story ‘This way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen’ by Tadeusz Borowski narrates the experience of an unnamed narrator in a first –person point of view and explains the horrifying events that surround the narrator in Auschwitz concentration camp. Borowski expresses a distant attitude as he is touched by the horrific events that occurred in the camp. A dehumanizing event is experienced in the story when a number of prisoners both alive and dead were brought to by cargo tracks and others forced to pick up dead infants from the tracks that were being unloaded. The scene begins when a train load of Jews arrives from France and three women appear among the other prisoners unloaded from the boxcars.

The track carries both alive human beings and dead infants that belonged to the prisoners. The horrific scene is seen when the narrator is forced to clean the remains of the dead bodies on the track and the prisoners are being ordered to pick up their dead infants not knowing what to do with them. The narrator illustrates the scene in the story when he says, “We carry them out like chickens, holding several in each hand.” (702) The prisoners are ordered to hand over the dead infants to the three women who just arrived from the track. The women are horrified and refuse to pick the bodies from the prisoners.

This particular scene provided an impression of inhumanity based on the way the prisoners and the three women were treated. The narrator explains the extent of the situation that was too much for him to grasp at the moment. The scene also reveals the struggle persevered by the prisoners, which is seen when the women refused to pick the dead infants and were threatened to be killed if they did not pick up the dead bodies. The events that occurred at the Auschwitz camp reveal the less value for human life and the ethic transgression in the prisoner’s personality. This impression is revealed when the prisoners and the three women were put on the same track with dead bodies.

The significance of the scene in the context of the story provides a testimony of the kind of torture and inhumanity the Jews were subjected to in the camp. The scene conquers with what the camp was all about, where the survival of a prisoner depended on the prisoner’s participation in murder and degrading their fellow prisoners. The scene also shows the reality of the degradation of the humanistic aspect of the prisoners and their emotionless behavior to do any horrific activity for their survival.

The scene raises questions on the fate of the Jew prisoners who had no hope of resurrection from the nightmare of tribulations in Auschwitz camp. Based on the narration of Borowski, the narrator expressed a feeling of moral compromise and emotional numbness due to the dehumanization actions. This particular scene also raises the question of the readiness of the prisoners to persevere the type of torture and inhuman activities that was happening in the camp. In conclusion, the ethical transgression and the emotional detachment of the prisoners in Auschwitz camp are evident and depict the kind of life that they lived.