Book Jacket design

My artwork for hypothetical book cover of Tadeusz Borowski’s remarkable collection of concentration camp stories.  Read excerpts from the book and here's my book jacket design -
The gas in the title refers to 'Zyklon-B' was originally used as a delousing insecticide, then as a poison later used by the Nazis to gas over a million people.  The German word for poison, incidentally, is 'Gift' hence poison gas is 'Giftgas' - see label on the airtight containers in which the poison was stored.  I took this label's design as the starting point for my inspiration -

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