Tadeusz Borowski

Tadeusz Borowski (1922-1951), born in Zhytomyr, in Soviet Ukraine, into a Polish family, lived with an aunt after his father was deported to a camp in Karelia and his mother to Siberia; the family was repatriated to Poland in 1932. A clandestine student in Warsaw under the occupation, he was arrested in February 1943, passed through Pawiak prison and was deported in April to Auschwitz, then to Dachau, liberated by the Americans on 1 May 1945. Returning in 1946, a journalist and party member, he received the national literature prize in 1950. He died in Warsaw on 3 July 1951.

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• Short storiesThis Way for the Gas, Ladies and GentlemenPożegnanie z MariąTadeusz Borowski · 1948Literature