1. In 1940 Tadeusz Borowski finished his secondary schooling in Nazi-occupied Poland in an underground lyceum.
13 Facts About Tadeusz Borowski
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Tadeusz Borowski graduated from high school in 1940 amid the roundups of Jewish residents.
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Tadeusz Borowski began his underground studies in Polish literature at Warsaw University.
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In late 1944 Tadeusz Borowski was transported from Auschwitz to the Dautmergen subcamp of Natzweiler-Struthof, and finally to Dachau.
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Dachau-Allach, where Tadeusz Borowski was imprisoned, was liberated by the Americans on 1 May 1945; after that Tadeusz Borowski found himself in a camp for displaced persons near Munich.
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Tadeusz Borowski spent some time in Paris, and then returned to Poland on 31 May 1946.
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Tadeusz Borowski turned to prose after the war, believing that what he had to say could no longer be expressed in verse.
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The Polish government considered the poem "amoral" but Tadeusz Borowski found work as a journalist.
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Tadeusz Borowski joined the Soviet-controlled Polish Workers' Party in 1948 and wrote political tracts as well.
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Tadeusz Borowski returned to Warsaw a year later and entered into an extramarital affair.
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Tadeusz Borowski tried to intervene on his behalf and failed; he became completely disillusioned with the socialist regime.
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On July 3,1951, at the age of 28, Tadeusz Borowski died by suicide by breathing in gas from a gas stove.
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Tadeusz Borowski's books are recognized as classics of Polish post-war literature and had much influence in Central European society.