Based on Korczak's diary and other writings, and on interviews with surviving orphans and students he cared for, Lifton tells how the doctor devoted his life to deprived Jewish and Polish children in Warsaw, founded and directed a model orphanage, and pushed for Polish-Jewish reconciliation even as national animosity in pre-World War II Poland was bltadwin.ru by: For more on the life and career of Janusz Korczak, see Mark Bernheim, Father of the Orphans: The Story of Janusz Korczak (New York: E. P. Dutton, ); Adir Cohen, The Gate of Light: Janusz Korczak: The Educator and Writer Who Overcame the Holocaust (London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, ); and Betty Jean Lifton, The King of Children: A Biography of Janusz . · Book review of The King of Children: The Life and Death of Janusz Korczak (Author: Betty Jean Lifton; pages). Janusz Korczak (nom de plum for Henryk Goldszmit) was a Polish physician, author, educator and, pedagogue who perished at Treblinka August Many say he was one of the "36 Righteous"/5.
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This is the tragic story of Janusz Korczak (as featured in the major motion picture The Zookeeper's Wife) who chose to perish in Treblinka rather than abandon the Jewish orphans in his care. Janusz Korczak, “The King of the Children” Joseph Stalin once told U.S. Ambassador Averill Harriman “the death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic.” Perhaps this is why readers react so much more sympathetically to the personal account of the Holocaust in The Diary of Anne Frank than to any history or political science book on the subject. About the book. A classic as stirring as Schindler's List, The King of Children is the acclaimed biography of the first advocate of children's rights and the man known as the savior of hundreds of orphans in the Warsaw ghetto. Janusz Korczak was known throughout Europe as a Pied Piper of destitute children even before the onslaught of World War II. But on August 6, , Korczak stepped into legend.
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