Author: Gloria Spielman
Publisher: Kar-Ben Publishing ™
ISBN: 1512490229
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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In the years between WWI and WWII, young Henryk Goldszmidt dreamed of creating a better world for children. As an adult, using the pen name Janusz Korczak, he became a writer, doctor, and an enlightened leader in the field of education, unaware to what use his skills were destined to be put. Dr. Korczak established a Jewish orphanage in Warsaw where he introduced the world to his progressive ideas in child development and children’s rights. When the Nazis occupy Warsaw, the orphanage is moved to the ghetto, and when the 200 children in his care are deported, Dr. Korczak famously refuses to be saved, marching with his charges to the train that will take them to their deaths. This biography of Janusz Korczak is a chapter book for elementary school readers and has full color illustrations
Author: Gloria Spielman
Publisher: Kar-Ben
ISBN: 1580136389
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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A biography of Janusz Korczak, who went to his death with the Jewish orphans in his care during the Nazi occupation of Poland in World War II.
Author: Betty Jean Lifton
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312155605
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 436
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As stirring as "Schindler's List", this classic biography focuses on the first advocate of children's rights--the man known as the savior of hundreds of orphans in the Warsaw Ghetto. A "New York Times" Notable Book. photos.
Author: Janusz Korczak
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 9781565124899
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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The wisdom, understanding, and advice of the late Polish educator, physician, and child advocate come together in a gift volume for parents that includes one hundred quotations and excerpts from Korczak's writings that explain how to care for, respect, and love every child.
Author: Janusz Korczak
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300097429
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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Reprint. Originally published: New York: Holocaust Library, c1978.
Author: Albert Marrin
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 152470122X
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 401
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From National Book Award Finalist Albert Marrin comes the moving story of Janusz Korczak, the heroic Polish Jewish doctor who devoted his life to children, perishing with them in the Holocaust. Janusz Korczak was more than a good doctor. He was a hero. The Dr. Spock of his day, he established orphanages run on his principle of honoring children and shared his ideas with the public in books and on the radio. He famously said that "children are not the people of tomorrow, but people today." Korczak was a man ahead of his time, whose work ultimately became the basis for the U.N. Declaration of the Rights of the Child. Korczak was also a Polish Jew on the eve of World War II. He turned down multiple opportunities for escape, standing by the children in his orphanage as they became confined to the Warsaw Ghetto. Dressing them in their Sabbath finest, he led their march to the trains and ultimately perished with his children in Treblinka. But this book is much more than a biography. In it, renowned nonfiction master Albert Marrin examines not just Janusz Korczak's life but his ideology of children: that children are valuable in and of themselves, as individuals. He contrasts this with Adolf Hitler's life and his ideology of children: that children are nothing more than tools of the state. And throughout, Marrin draws readers into the Warsaw Ghetto. What it was like. How it was run. How Jews within and Poles without responded. Who worked to save lives and who tried to enrich themselves on other people's suffering. And how one man came to represent the conscience and the soul of humanity. Filled with black-and-white photographs, this is an unforgettable portrait of a man whose compassion in even the darkest hours reminds us what is possible.
Author: Elisabeth Gifford
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1643136372
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Set in the ghettos of wartime Warsaw, this is a sweeping, poignant, and heartbreaking novel inspired by the true story of one doctor who was determined to protect two hundred Jewish orphans from extermination. Deeply in love and about to marry, students Misha and Sophia flee a Warsaw under Nazi occupation for a chance at freedom. Forced to return to the Warsaw ghetto, they help Misha's mentor, Dr Janusz Korczak, care for the two hundred children in his orphanage. As Korczak struggles to uphold the rights of even the smallest child in the face of unimaginable conditions, he becomes a beacon of hope for the thousands who live behind the walls. As the noose tightens around the ghetto, Misha and Sophia are torn from one another, forcing them to face their worst fears alone. They can only hope to find each other again one day . . . Meanwhile, refusing to leave the children unprotected, Korczak must confront a terrible darkness.
Author: Janusz Korczak
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466894172
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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A child king introduces reforms to give children the same rights as adults.
Author: Irène Cohen-Janca
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781554517152
Category : Children's books
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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November 1940. A circus parade walks through the streets of Warsaw, waving a flag and singing. They are 160 Jewish children, forced by the Nazis to leave their beloved orphanage. It's a sad occasion, but led by Doctor Korczak, their inspirational director, the children are defiantly joyful.
Author: Tomasz Bogacki
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374341362
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 45
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Book Description
Presents the story of Janusz Korczak, a writer and doctor who established an orphanage for Jewish children in 1912 and who, together with his orphans, was sent by the Nazis to the Treblinka extermination camp in 1942.
