''Medallions'' (the original

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title: ''Medaliony'') is a book consisting of eight short stories by the Polish author Zofia Nałkowska. The book was originally published in 1946, soon after the end of

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. In it, Nałkowska calmly related selected stories of

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atrocities in

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and the fates of their victims. Nałkowska was a member of a special committee for the investigation of Nazi crimes that took place in Poland, where she had learned facts directly from victims and witnesses. Part of the text was published in English in the ''Introduction to Modern Polish Literature'' edited by Adam Gillon and Ludwik Krzyżanowski. A complete translation by Diana Kuprel was published by the Northwestern University Press in 2000.

References

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, publisher = Northwestern University Press , year = 1999 , url = https://archive.org/details/medallions00nako/page/49 , isbn = 0-8101-1743-6 , oclc = 42475803 , accessdate = 2018-02-07 {{citation , last = Zofia, first = Nałkowska , authorlink = Zofia Nałkowska , title = Medaliony , publisher = Spółdzielnię Wydawniczą „Czytelnik”, location = Warsaw , year = 1946 , url = http://evacska.republika.pl/materialy/lektury/zofia_nalkowska/medaliony.htm , accessdate = 2018-02-07, archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20170430114054/http://evacska.republika.pl/materialy/lektury/zofia_nalkowska/medaliony.htm, archivedate= 2017-04-30 {{cite web , title = Medallions by Zofia Nalkowska, Paperback, February 25, 2000 , publisher =

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, year = 2018 , url = http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/books/Medallions-Zofia-Nalkowska/9780810117433-item.html?pticket=wj0ln545retedhu14bp32t55e5evulDtETRqtzCMNBu4NOdT384%3d , accessdate = 2018-02-07 {{cite web , title = Medallions, Zofia Nalkowska, Considered a masterpiece of antifascist world literature , publisher = Northwestern University Press , year = 2006 , url = http://nupress.northwestern.edu/title.cfm?ISBN=0-8101-1743-6 , archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20060901171332/http://nupress.northwestern.edu/title.cfm?ISBN=0-8101-1743-6 , archivedate = 2006-09-01 , url-status = dead , access-date = 2007-09-01

External links

''Introduction to Modern Polish Literature''
(Paperback) by Adam Gillon (Editor), including review.
Zofia Nałkowska’s ‘Medallions’ & The Bomb That Never Went Off
from Culture.pl 1946 short story collections Books about World War II Polish short story collections Northwestern University Press books

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