...only to take his own life, yet another victim of Nazi atrocities. Before he died, though, he chronicled what he had seen in several books; his most famous is This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen. This paper discusses what Borowski asserts about human nature based on his experiences.
Discussion
Borowski's "best short fiction was written within a period of only two to three years, and therefore it may seem futile to speak of his 'development' (Scherr). Nearly all the work he is best known for deal with his experiences in the camps, and "they are alike in expressing despair, a sense of being caught up in a world that has lost meaning, and a concern with what it means to continue living in such a world" (Scherr). It may be that he could no longer find it within himself to live in a world where such things as the Holocaust could happen, and that is why he took his life; we'll never know.
The story This Way for...