Here in our Auschwitz and other stories / Tadeusz Borowski ; foreword by Timothy Snyder ; translated from the Polish by Madeline G. Levine.

Includes bibliographical references.

Here in our Auschwitz... -- The people who were walking -- Farewell to Maria -- A day at Harmenze -- Ladies and gentlemen, please come to the gas -- The death of an insurgent -- The battle of Grunwald -- A brief preface -- The stony world -- A story from real life -- The death of Schillinger -- The man with the package -- Supper -- Silence -- Encounter with a child -- The end of the war -- Independence Day -- Opera, opera -- A journey in a Pullman car -- My room -- Summer in a small town -- The girl from the burned-out building -- An advance -- A hot afternoon -- Under the heroic partisan -- Diary of a journey -- A bourgeois evening -- A visit -- The boy with a Bible -- Freimann journal -- Fatherland -- The January offensive -- An Auschwitz lexicon.

"In 1943, the twenty-year-old Polish poet and journalist Tadeusz Borowski was arrested and deported to Auschwitz as a political prisoner. What he experienced in the camp left him convinced that no one who survived Auschwitz was innocent. All were complicit; the camp regime depended on this. Borowski's tales present the horrors of the camp as reflections of basic human nature and impulse, stripped of the artificial boundaries of culture and custom. Inside the camp, the strongest of the prisoners form uneasy alliances with their captors and one another, watching unflinchingly as the weak struggle against their inevitable fate. In the last analysis, suffering is never ennobling, and goodness is tantamount to suicide. Regarded by Czesław Miłosz as the most terrifying tales to emerge from the Holocaust, these stories are a chilling look at a moral universe governed entirely by the will to power." -From publisher.