Korb has a master's degree in English literature and creative writing and has written for a wide variety of educational publishers. In the following essay, she discusses the moral climate of Auschwitz. On the heels of the end of World War II, Borowski and two other Polish survivors brought out the simply titled We Were in Auschwitz.
The three authors composed a collective Preface to their book. "Confinement in the camp, destitution, torture, and death in the gas chamber," they wrote, "are not heroism, are not even anything positive." They described life in the camp as "defeat, the almost immediate abandonment of ideological principles" and themselves as "evil, hard, and cruel." Borowski's Auschwitz stories demonstrate the sad truth, that "we often renounced our humanity because we wanted to survive."
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