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The study presents an attempt of such reading (and writing) of postwar Polish literature devoted totalitarian experience, that proves unquestionable similarity between the literature of Soviet gulag and the literature of Holocaust. Historians, scholars, politics argued with each other if one can compares two totalitarian systems – the fascism (Nazi) and the communism. Writers, who had lived in Soviet labour camps, had no doubts. My paper is concerned with the ways in which Polish writers (witnesses) of an extreme situation in the concentration universe had been describing it. I show commonplaces in many novels, memoirs in Holocaust literature as well as in gulag literature. The analysis of these compositions lets to make a conclusion that the differentiation of the Holocaust literature and the gulag literature is a mistake. There is one literature of the totalitarian experience.