There are countless pages written by many authors detailing the accounts of the Holocaust. Some of these authors experienced the brutality and horrors of life in a concentration camp first-hand; while, others wrote about their experiences from outside perspectives. In this essay, two of these authors will be compared to one another in order to answer the question of how one tells a survivor’s story. Moshe Flinker, a young Jewish diarist living in Belgium, and Tadeusz Borowski, author of This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen, will be compared on the methods that each writer uses to describe their respective experiences, the perspective from which each narrative is told, and the outlook that each author portrays regarding their own futures after the war. …show more content…
In return for their compliance, the men were allowed to take whatever food they could find on the dead bodies back to their barracks. In comparison, Flinker’s personal diary entries are an account of his life in Brussels on a week-to-week basis. He relies on his religious devotion to Judaism as a method of justifying what is happening to his people and he feels a strong sense of guilt for surviving under the guise of being a non-Jew using false papers obtained by his Father. Flinker feels that this action is cowardly and that he should be suffering for his sins along with the rest of the Jewish