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Today's #WaferThinBook: Medallions by Zofia Nałkowska, tr. Diana Kuprel (1946/2000, 88p.)
Sketches from Nałkowska's interviews and visits of Holocaust survivors and sites soon after liberation. A companion to Tadeusz Borowski's This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen. 🧵

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"In the cemetery vaults, caskets stand in rows, as if in a queue, awaiting burial. Ordinary, private death, next to the immensity of collective death, seems rather improper. Yet to live is an even greater impropriety."

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