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Medallions (Jewish Lives)

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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."

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.

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...

I don't have any doubts that there will be SOME people whose ignorance and limited knowledge about the subject concerning holocaust lead them to think about this book in terms of fiction. I hope that one day they would stop living inside the box and their thinking horizons would expand.
Before that happen it is not the book for them. For everyone else who wants to know the horror and real face of holocaust--- lock your seat belt.

This book is a true testimony of Zofia Nalkowska. Holocaust happened and it was not pleasant, Mr Kozlovov.

This book is neither historical or factual, yet it would like to infer such. This is partial, if not complete, fiction. Recognizing this, one immediately loses interest in this dreary subject matter. Disappointing, a complete waste of time.