This interesting site, run by Don Hargraves, is a good resource for beginning research into the work of Tadeuz Borowski. These pages focus on the author's career as a poet, more than on the short stories with which he garnered much success. You'll find links to many poems, along with a brief biography. An interesting site.

Irek from the Underground
http://www.remember.org/forgotten/irek-e.html

Click here to find an excellent biography (written by Terese Pencak Schwartz) of the World War II Polish Resistance Fighter. The comprehensive biography is a fantastic narrative that relates a few stories of the trials and travels of the author through filthy sewers, as a war hero, and while being pursued by Soviet Police, and shows excellent pictures of Borowski.

BIOGRAPHY
Tadeusz Borowski (b.1922) was born in Zytomierz, a Polish city in the then-Soviet Ukraine. His parents were both deported as suspected dissidents when he was young, and he lived with his aunt. He secretly attended the underground Warsaw University, though the Nazis forbade Polish people from attending college. After publication of his first book of poetry in 1942, Wherever the Earth, he and his fiancée, Maria Rundo, were arrested and sent to Auschwitz. After his release and return to Poland, Borowski was hailed as a great literary figure. He published a volume of stories entitledPozegnanie z Maria, Farewell to Maria (1948) containing the text "Ladies and Gentlemen, to the Gas Chamber." The events in the story are taken from Borowski's own experiences in the Auschwitz and Dachau concentration camps from 1943 to 1945. While a prisoner at Auschwitz, Borowski worked as an orderly in a "hospital" where experiments were conducted on the prisoners. Borowski's adjustment to life after the horrors he witnessed during World War II was difficult. "The whole world is really like the concentration camp," he wrote in This Way for the Gas[[JL: can't tell if this is a novel or poem. Italics or quotes as necessary.]] (1948); "the weak work for the strong, and if they have no strength or will to work-then let them steal, or let them die." He took his own life on July 1, 1951, when he was 29 nine years old, by breathing the gas from a gas stove.