{"id":2537,"date":"2020-02-01T17:12:46","date_gmt":"2020-02-01T16:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oczamidziecka.al.uw.edu.pl\/?page_id=2537"},"modified":"2021-04-29T23:42:54","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T22:42:54","slug":"jedrus-chlopak-ze-lwowa-jedrus-a-boy-from-lviv","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oczamidziecka.al.uw.edu.pl\/index.php\/en\/jedrus-chlopak-ze-lwowa-jedrus-a-boy-from-lviv\/","title":{"rendered":"J\u0119dru\u015b, ch\u0142opak ze Lwowa [J\u0119dru\u015b, a Boy from Lviv]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Author: Andrzej Perepeczko<\/h6>\n\n\n\n
Illustrator: Magdalena Pilch<\/h6>\n\n\n\n
Year: 2019<\/h6>\n\n\n\n
Publisher: Literatura<\/h6>\n\n\n\n
Place of publication: \u0141\u00f3d\u017a<\/h6>\n\n\n\n
Pages: 144<\/h6>\n\n\n\n
ISBN: 9788376727165<\/h6>\n\n\n\n
Notes: “Wojny doros\u0142ych \u2013 historie dzieci” series<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Cover courtesy of the publisher. \u00a9Andrzej Perepeczko
\u00a9Wydawnictwo Literatura<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Andrzej Perepeczko\u2019s autobiographical story begins in inter-war Lviv. In 1935, the boy and his family move to Modlin near Warsaw, where they live until the outbreak of the Second World War. In early September 1939, the father, a lieutenant in the Polish Army, decides to send his family to the countryside. J\u0119dru\u015b finds himself in Luszawa, a town in the Lublin voivodeship. After the Battle of Kock<\/a> is lost (in early October 1939), they leave for Warsaw. There are many more relocations in his young life, but the war comes to an end with J\u0119dru\u015b in Radomsko. The boy\u2019s wartime travels mix with descriptions of everyday life under German occupation, including underground education, roundups, participation in the paramilitary Grey Ranks (Szare Szeregi) or news of the Warsaw Uprising.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Holocaust appears in the book episodically. During his escape from Modlin, the protagonist notices that only Jewish people become victims of the bombings of Kock, and wonders: \u201cwhy are the Germans bombing and burning such a little Jewish town? \u2026 After all, there is no target here that would be worth bombing\u201d [37]. A short fragment is also devoted to the creation of the Warsaw Ghetto<\/a>, whose \u201cinhabitants\u201d [64] (later also called \u201cprisoners\u201d [73]) have no right to go outside of its walls. The Poles cannot help them, which prompts J\u0119dru\u015b\u2019s grandmother\u2019s comment \u201cwe can \u2026 only pray for them, unfortunately\u201d [64]. Interestingly, Perepeczko\u2019s story does not follow the convention of a child character witnessing the Shoah. J\u0119dru\u015b\u2019s grandmother explains why: \u201cbetter not look at the ghetto, children, because people die in the streets there\u201d [64]. The text also mentions the reduction of the ghetto\u2019s area and the 1943 uprising resulting in the complete destruction of the \u201cquarter encircled with a wall\u201d [73\u201374].<\/span><\/p>\n

Bibliography:<\/h6>\n
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  • Rybak, K., Stosunki polsko-\u017cydowskie i Zag\u0142ada w polskiej literaturze dzieci\u0119cej XXI wieku<\/em>, [in:] Stosunki polsko-\u017cydowskie<\/em>, vol. 2, Kultura. Literatura, sztuka i nauka w XX wieku<\/em>, ed. Z. Tr\u0119bacz, Warszawa 2020, pp. 171\u2013187 (p. 174, fn. 7).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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    Author: Andrzej Perepeczko Illustrator: Magdalena Pilch Year: 2019 Publisher: Literatura Place of publication: \u0141\u00f3d\u017a Pages: 144 ISBN: 9788376727165 Notes: “Wojny doros\u0142ych \u2013 historie dzieci” series Andrzej Perepeczko\u2019s autobiographical story begins in inter-war Lviv. In 1935, the boy and his family move to Modlin near Warsaw, where they live until the outbreak of the Second World War. In early September 1939, the father, a lieutenant in the Polish Army, decides to send his family to the countryside. J\u0119dru\u015b finds himself in Luszawa, a town in the Lublin voivodeship. After the Battle of Kock is lost (in early October 1939), they leave for Warsaw. There are many more relocations in his young life, but the war comes to an end with J\u0119dru\u015b in Radomsko. The boy\u2019s wartime travels mix with descriptions of everyday life under German occupation, including underground education, roundups, participation in the paramilitary Grey Ranks (Szare Szeregi) or news of the Warsaw Uprising. The Holocaust appears in the book episodically. During his escape from Modlin, the protagonist notices that only Jewish people become victims of the bombings of Kock, and wonders: \u201cwhy are the Germans bombing and burning such a little Jewish town? \u2026 After all, there is no target here that would be worth bombing\u201d [37]. A short fragment is also devoted to the creation of the Warsaw Ghetto, whose \u201cinhabitants\u201d [64] (later also called \u201cprisoners\u201d [73]) have no right to go outside of its walls. The Poles cannot help them, which prompts J\u0119dru\u015b\u2019s grandmother\u2019s comment \u201cwe can \u2026 only pray for them, unfortunately\u201d [64]. Interestingly, Perepeczko\u2019s story does not follow the convention of a child character witnessing the Shoah. J\u0119dru\u015b\u2019s grandmother explains why: \u201cbetter not look at the ghetto, children, because people die in the streets there\u201d [64]. The text also mentions the reduction of the ghetto\u2019s area and the 1943 uprising resulting in the complete destruction of the \u201cquarter encircled with a wall\u201d [73\u201374]. Bibliography: Rybak, K., Stosunki polsko-\u017cydowskie i Zag\u0142ada w polskiej literaturze dzieci\u0119cej XXI wieku, [in:] Stosunki polsko-\u017cydowskie, vol. 2, Kultura. Literatura, sztuka i nauka w XX wieku, ed. Z. Tr\u0119bacz, Warszawa 2020, pp. 171\u2013187 (p. 174, fn. 7). \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oczamidziecka.al.uw.edu.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2537"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oczamidziecka.al.uw.edu.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oczamidziecka.al.uw.edu.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oczamidziecka.al.uw.edu.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oczamidziecka.al.uw.edu.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2537"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/oczamidziecka.al.uw.edu.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3292,"href":"https:\/\/oczamidziecka.al.uw.edu.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2537\/revisions\/3292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oczamidziecka.al.uw.edu.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}