Medallions (Jewish Lives) [Paperback]

Zofia Nalkowska (Author), Diana Kuprel (Translator)

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Language Notes

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Polish --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 49 pages
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press; 1 edition (February 25, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0810117436
• ISBN-13: 978-0810117433
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.6 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #502,720 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Medallions, January 5, 2001

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This review is from: Medallions (Jewish Lives) (Paperback)

If you're looking for something real, something disturbing, something to open your heart - you've found it.

This book was my high school required reading and I'll be forever grateful for it. "Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it."

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars medallions- real testimonies, December 26, 2004

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mia "mia" (europe) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Medallions (Jewish Lives) (Paperback)

It is very interesting to see how uneducated and uninformed people express their ignorant opinions. For those who don't know, Zofia Nalkowska was a known political activist after WWII. She wrote the book "Medallions" on the basis on true interviews she conducted with the holocaust survivors. All the stories in her book are real. Moreover, her book "Mediallions" has been praised by many great literary figures, critics and others, for the way she wrote the book: with no author's opinions, with no subjective (her) adjectives, no beautyfing, no changes - only blank testimonies of those who saw on their own eyes and experienced on their own bodies the horrors written down in "Medallions." Trully, I believe those testimonies are more real and know more truth than some unexperienced and uneducated reader. The book is not a fiction, just as well the holocaust was not.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars about Medallions, December 8, 2008

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Tahoegirl (Poland/USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Medallions (Jewish Lives) (Hardcover)

Mr. Kozlovov , I feel outraged of your ignorance and denial of Holocaust. This book is a testimony of people who witnessed the horros of Holocaust and others who lived through it and survived it. Your narrow minded and uneducated way of looking at worlds biggest tragedy is truly disturbing not to say disgusting. I recommend trip to Poland to Aushwitz ASAP. Maybe after you take a look at what one nation did to the other you will open your blind eyes. I truly believe it is because of people who think like you that Holocaust even happend...