In this paper, as a part of a research project on Polish and Japanese post-war literature, I am analyzing the meaning of "concentration camp literature" in the whole literature and discussing the importance of regarding it as a part of non-fiction (in Polish known as "literatura faktu"). I am also analyzing the definition of "non-fiction" and giving some literary examples from Polish post-war literature. After presenting the definition of "concentration camp literature", I am focusing on Nazis concentration camp literature written in Polish in comparison to Russian concentration camp literature, starting from Fyodor Dostoevsky's (1821-1881) "The House of the Dead", Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's (1918-) "The Gulag Archipelago", and giving an example of a Polish writer, Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski (1919-2000) and his "A World Apart" (1951). I am comparing his work on a Soviet concentration camp with some works of the most representative Polish writer on Auschwitz, Tadeusz Borowski (1922-1951). Finally, I am presenting some representative Polish writers and their works on Auschwitz. In my studies I divided them into two groups, those who had experienced the camp in Auschwitz, luckily survived and then shared their tragedies with us ; and those who never knew life in the camp, but through interviewing witnesses, and checking the evidence of the tragedy, wrote nonfiction novels. (Borowski belongs to the first group.)

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国立情報学研究所で電子化