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A Study Guide for Tadeusz Borowski's "Silence", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
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A Study Guide for Tadeusz Borowski's "Silence" - Gale
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Silence
Tadeusz Borowski
1947
Introduction
Tadeusz Borowski's short story Silence,
included in his posthumous collection This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen (1959), explores the human drive for revenge as newly liberated prisoners of a Nazi concentration camp face the question of dealing with the SS guards who tortured them. Although their American liberators request that the prisoners rest and recover rather than take the law into their own hands, the men will not be satisfied until they have vengeance. A survivor of the Auschwitz and Dachau concentration camps, Borowski was imprisoned at the age of twenty-one and was present for the liberation of Dachau in 1945. His short stories explore the harsh conditions and undeniable reality of the Holocaust from the perspective of a non-Jewish prisoner whose survival depends on his ability to outwit not only guards but sometimes other prisoners. Though the short stories in the collection caused a scandal when first published in Poland for their lack of clear heroes and villains, This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen is considered an invaluable work of Holocaust literature. The stories in This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen first appeared in Polish in two collections of short stories: Pozegnanie z Maria (Farewell to Maria) in 1947 and Kamienny swiat (World of Stone) in 1948. The first Polish edition of This Way to the Gas Ladies and Gentlemen was published in 1959, and was first translated into English in 1967.
Author Biography
Borowski was born on November 12, 1922, in Zhytomyr, Ukraine, which was then part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). Targeted as Poles during Stalin's Great Terror, both his father and mother were imprisoned in Soviet work camps during his childhood, leaving Borowski in the care of his aunt. In 1932 the family was reunited and expatriated by the Polish Red Cross from Ukraine to Poland in exchange for Communist prisoners. They lived together in Warsaw under impoverished conditions.
When Germany invaded Poland in 1939, Poles were forbidden
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