Death of the Innocent.................

In the short story, This Way for the Gas, Ladies, and Gentlemen written by Tadeusz Borowski, he wants his reader to visualize how the innocent suffered without much hope. His setting is placed during the Holocaust which took place between 1933- 1945, where the German’s killed millions of Jews including women and young children. You can imagine how horrible this place was. In the short story as you read you see a small glimpse of hope when the Red Cross van is mention. He replies, “A Red Cross van drives back and forth, incessantly: it transports the gas that will kill these people” (Borowski 701). Normally when you see a cross it symbolize hope and truth, but during this point it symbolizes death for the people who do not know because it carries the gas that will expire their life. The Jews are forced to endure this act because the people who could help did not know or just did not care. Women was afraid to claim their own children because they could not phantom the abuse and torture they endured. He replies, “Pick up your child woman: the child runs after her [screaming], ‘Mama, mama, don’t leave me: so you’re running from your child, [the woman was choked to death] and thrown onto the truck” (Borowski 704). The mother was killed because she did not want to see her child suffer. How many of us today will die so we will not  be a witness to the suffering of our children?