Published in Poland after World War II, this collection of concentration camp stories shows atrocious crimes becoming an unremarkable part of a daily routine. Prisoners eat, work, sleep, and fall in love a few yards from where other prisoners are systematically slaughtered. The will to survive overrides compassion, and the line between the normal and abnormal wavers, then vanishes.

Contents:

• This Way to the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
• A Day At Harmenz
• The People Who Walked On
• Auschwitz, Our Home (A Letter)
• The Death of Schillinger
• The Man with the Package
• The Supper
• A True Story
• Silence
• The January Offensive
• A Visit
• The World of Stone