{"id":2632,"date":"2020-02-07T14:25:59","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T13:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oczamidziecka.al.uw.edu.pl\/?page_id=2632"},"modified":"2023-12-06T10:26:19","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T09:26:19","slug":"skarb-getta-the-treasure-of-the-ghetto","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oczamidziecka.al.uw.edu.pl\/index.php\/en\/skarb-getta-the-treasure-of-the-ghetto\/","title":{"rendered":"Skarb getta [The Treasure of the Ghetto]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Author: Adam Michejda<\/h6>\n\n\n\n
Illustrator: Tomasz Woody Borawski<\/h6>\n\n\n\n
Year: 2019<\/h6>\n\n\n\n
Publisher: Oficyna 4eM<\/h6>\n\n\n\n
Place of publication: Warszawa<\/h6>\n\n\n\n
Pages: 303<\/h6>\n\n\n\n
ISBN: 9788366242159<\/h6>\n\n\n\n
Notes: “Pilny na tropie” series<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Cover courtesy of the publisher. \u00a9Oficyna 4eM, Warszawa 2019 <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The narrator of this novel is Rafa\u0142 Pilny, a journalist who was born in Poland and currently lives in the United States. He comes across his father\u2019s diary, written during the Second World War. The diary\u2019s author, Dawid, was raised at Janusz Korczak\u2019s<\/a> Orphanage<\/a>. Right after the war, he participated in hiding a treasure in Warsaw, and the search for it becomes the main axis of the novel\u2019s plot. Rafa\u0142, along with his sons David and Max, heads to Poland in order to find the treasure as well as learn the history of the capital city and of grandfather Dawid himself. This proves to be challenging. On their path, the family must solve many historical riddles, aided by an expert from the Warsaw Rising Museum<\/a> or a clockmaking-enthusiast, but also a suspicious group of musclemen, interested in finding the treasure of the ghetto.<\/span><\/p>\n

In this first volume of the series Pilny Investigates<\/i>, Michejda combines a contemporary narrative with fragments of Dawid Kantorowicz\u2019s diary. The fictional child character recorded events from the Warsaw Ghetto<\/a> in 1941-1942. Fragments of Janusz Korczak\u2019s writings were incorporated there (marked with footnotes) as well as descriptions of the grim reality in accordance with the recollections of victims and witnesses. In the novel, Warsaw\u2019s past merges with the present. Rafa\u0142 and his sons visit landmarks of Jewish history in Warsaw: Ch\u0142odna Street, where they marvel at the art installation which commemorates a footbridge that used to connect the so-called small ghetto with the large ghetto; the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews<\/a>; and Korczakianum<\/a>, a branch of the Museum of Warsaw located at the original premises of the Orphan Home at 92 Krochmalna Street (today: 6 Jaktorowska Street).<\/span><\/p>\n

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