Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Ladies and Gentlemen: to the gas Chamber by Tadeusz Borowski

This story is about unnamed narrator who member of the so-called Canada squad, members of the Kommando labor gang whose job is to unload the Jewish prisoners from the cattle cars and send them either to the work camp or to the gas chambers. They worked at the train station along with SS soldiers. When the train stops, they have to unload prisoners and sent them to work camp or to the gas chambers to die. Each train have a lot of people on it, these people were gasping for air and water. When prisoners ask where they were going he could not answers them. He has to clean the cars fill with dead babies and take every valuable things that the prisoners have. Sometimes he did not want to go to the train station. He wonder what he is doing is right but he has to do it in order to survive. He has a friend who named is Henri who seem to think what he is doing right. 

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