In his book So for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen, Tadeusz Borowski shows how the conditions and situations in which the prisoners were subjected led them to making a choice decision that most human beings never face. The choice between compassion and concern for one's fellow man or just love and care for oneself. This may seem harsh to people, but after seeing, hearing, smelling and feeling the things they did in the camp, it was the only way to survive physically and mentally. The narrator in the book makes the decision numerous times and suffers from these choices as he does