“Between two throw-ins in a soccer game, right behind my back, three thousand people had been put to death.” (page 84) Can you imagine? In a time period of probably ten minutes three thousand people were brutally killed in a gas chamber. This number is a minute figure compared to the millions and millions of people that were killed during this awful time period. In Tadeusz Borowski’s book This way for the Gas,Ladies and …showed first 75 words of 777 total…

…showed last 75 words of 777 total…That ‘will’ could have been that they knew that this horror would not last forever and they would meet with their loved ones again to live a happy life. This ‘will’ could also mean that they felt their stories needed to be heard in hopes that killers would be punished as badly as they were. To survive a life full of sick competiveness, never-ending fear, and the loss of loved ones is a huge accomplishment.