- Title Pages
- The Institute for Polish‒Jewish Studies
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Dedication
- Preface
- Polin
- Polin
- Contents
- Note on Names of People and Places
- Note on Transliteration
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Anti-Jewish Violence in Poland, 1918‒1939 and 1945‒1947
- Jewish Reaction to the Soviet Arrival in the Kresy in September 1939
- Reflections on Soviet Documents Relating to Polish Prisoners of War Taken in September 1939
- The Demography of Jews in Hiding in Warsaw, 1943‒1945
- Psychological Problems of Polish Jews who Used Aryan Documents
- My Two Mothers
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Early Swedish Information about the Nazis’ Mass Murder of the Jews
- Jewish Identities in the Holocaust: Martyrdom as a Representative Category
- Three Essays on Jewish Education during the Nazi Occupation
-
Two Coffins on Smocza Street and Śliska Street
- Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński: A Poet-Hero
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Paper Epitaphs of a Holocaust Memorial: Zofia Nałkowska’s Medallions
- Letter to Father
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Stereotypes of Polish–Jewish Relations after the War: The Special Commission of the Central Committee of Polish Jews
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The Bund and the Jewish Fraction of the Polish Workers’ Party in Poland after 1945
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Whose Nation, Whose State? Working-Class Nationalism and Antisemitism in Poland, 1945‒1947
- Poles and Jews in the Kielce Region and Radom, April 1945–February 1946
- Polish Jews during and after the Kielce Pogrom: Reports from the Communist Archives
- Bełżec
- The Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum: From Commemoration to Education
- Notes on the Contributors
- Glossary
- Index
Paper Epitaphs of a Holocaust Memorial: Zofia Nałkowska’s Medallions
Paper Epitaphs of a Holocaust Memorial: Zofia Nałkowska’s Medallions
- Chapter:
- (p.179) Paper Epitaphs of a Holocaust Memorial: Zofia Nałkowska’s Medallions
- Source:
- Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 13
- Author(s):
Diana Kuprel
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
This chapter addresses Zofa Nałkowska's literary Holocaust memorial Medallions, which was written in 1945 and first published in 1946. Considered a masterpiece in anti-fascist world literature, Medallions is the literary offspring of Nałkowska's wartime and commission experiences. It also stands as the culmination of her stylistic, formal, and thematic literary evolution. Medallions is one of the first, and most important, in the flow of literary accounts to take up the challenge to represent the Nazi machinery of genocide. Avoiding the tendency to mythologize the victims as either heroes or martyrs, it offers instead a concise, severely elegant witness to what people experienced in Poland during the war as distilled from the mass of facts gathered while Nałkowska served as a member of the Commission for the Investigation of War Crimes in Auschwitz.
Keywords: Zofa Nałkowska, literary Holocaust memorial, Holocaust, Medallions, anti-fascist world literature, Nazi genocide, Holocaust victims, Poland, Second World War
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- Title Pages
- The Institute for Polish‒Jewish Studies
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Dedication
- Preface
- Polin
- Polin
- Contents
- Note on Names of People and Places
- Note on Transliteration
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Anti-Jewish Violence in Poland, 1918‒1939 and 1945‒1947
- Jewish Reaction to the Soviet Arrival in the Kresy in September 1939
- Reflections on Soviet Documents Relating to Polish Prisoners of War Taken in September 1939
- The Demography of Jews in Hiding in Warsaw, 1943‒1945
- Psychological Problems of Polish Jews who Used Aryan Documents
- My Two Mothers
-
Early Swedish Information about the Nazis’ Mass Murder of the Jews
- Jewish Identities in the Holocaust: Martyrdom as a Representative Category
- Three Essays on Jewish Education during the Nazi Occupation
-
Two Coffins on Smocza Street and Śliska Street
- Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński: A Poet-Hero
-
Paper Epitaphs of a Holocaust Memorial: Zofia Nałkowska’s Medallions
- Letter to Father
-
Stereotypes of Polish–Jewish Relations after the War: The Special Commission of the Central Committee of Polish Jews
-
The Bund and the Jewish Fraction of the Polish Workers’ Party in Poland after 1945
-
Whose Nation, Whose State? Working-Class Nationalism and Antisemitism in Poland, 1945‒1947
- Poles and Jews in the Kielce Region and Radom, April 1945–February 1946
- Polish Jews during and after the Kielce Pogrom: Reports from the Communist Archives
- Bełżec
- The Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum: From Commemoration to Education
- Notes on the Contributors
- Glossary
- Index
