„BO ŻYWI ZAWSZE MAJĄ RACJĘ PRZECIW UMARŁYM“ - RZECZYWISTOŚĆ OBOZÓW KONCENTRACYJNYCH NA PODSTAWIE POWIEŚCI RUDOLFA VRBY UTEKL JSEM Z OSVĚTIMI I OPOWIADAŃ TADEUSZA BOROWSKIEGO
"BECAUSE THE LIVING ARE ALWAYS RIGHT AGAINST THE DEAD" - THE REALITY OF CONCENTRATION CAMPS BASED ON RUDOLF VRBA UTEKL JSEM Z OSVĚTIMI AND STORIES BY TADEUSZ BOROWSKI

Author(s): Katarzyna Dąbrowska
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Fascism, Nazism and WW II, History of the Holocaust
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: reality of concentration camps; prisoners and executioners; world of upside-down values;
Summary/Abstract: The aim of the paper is to present a horror caused by the Second World War, and in particular the reality of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. The whole paper i divided into two main parts. In the first one i would like to present briefly the profiles of two men Rudolf Vrba and Tadeusz Borowski and their lives before they were sent to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. In the second part i want to present their literary works, which are testimonies of the few who survived the hell of the concentration camp and were able to tell about this reality. In my deliberations, i focus on comparing what each of these men felt, experienced, what he learned, what attitude he presented to himself and other inmates and supervisors. On the basis of this information, i am able to create a picture of the reality of a concentration camp, not only its rules and principles, but above all a world in which there is no human identity, only a tattooed number and where any moral choice brings physical or mental suffering, and later death.

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