NAŁKOWSKA- MEDALIONY. MEDALLIONS. First edition, 1946
NAŁKOWSKA ZOFIA
MEDALIONY/ MEDALLIONS
Warsaw 1946, Spoldzielnia Czytelnik, pp. 188, format: 15,5x21,5 cm
First edition of this masterpiece of anti-fascist literature.
Medallions - a series of eight stories by Zofia Nałkowska, published in 1946 in Warsaw by the Czytelnik Publishing Cooperative, describing the fate of people who survived Nazi persecution during World War II. The stories relate the events calmly and restrainedly. Materials for the series Nałkowska collected victims of Nazi crimes while working at the Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland.
Zofia Nałkowska (born November 10, 1884 in Warsaw, died December 17, 1954 ibid.) - Polish writer, journalist and playwright, member of the National Council, the Legislative Sejm and the Sejm of the People's Republic of Poland, member of the Polish Committee for the Defenders of Peace in 1949.
SOFT COVER
GOOD CONDITION/ tears and dirt, entries on the covers