{"id":460,"date":"2019-02-10T18:16:57","date_gmt":"2019-02-10T17:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oczamidziecka.al.uw.edu.pl\/?page_id=460"},"modified":"2023-12-06T10:10:12","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T09:10:12","slug":"bezsennosc-jutki-jutkas-insomnia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oczamidziecka.al.uw.edu.pl\/index.php\/en\/bezsennosc-jutki-jutkas-insomnia\/","title":{"rendered":"Bezsenno\u015b\u0107 Jutki [Jutka’s Insomnia]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Author: Dorota Combrzy\u0144ska-Nogala<\/h6>\n\n\n\n
Illustrator: Joanna Rusinek<\/h6>\n\n\n\n
Year: 2012<\/h6>\n\n\n\n
Publisher: Literatura<\/h6>\n\n\n\n
Place of publication: \u0141\u00f3d\u017a<\/h6>\n\n\n\n
Pages: 79<\/h6>\n\n\n\n
ISBN: 9788376721514<\/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. \u00a9Wydawnictwo Literatura<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Jutka lives in the \u0141\u00f3d\u017a Ghetto with her grandfather Dawid Cwancygier and her aunt. Due to the surrounding events of war, the girl has trouble sleeping, so her grandfather tells her various bedtime stories: the tale of Snow White, the story of the Wawel dragon and the Greek myth of Theseus, Ariadne and the Minotaur. The latter tale engrosses the girl the most as she begins to notice similarities between the ancient tale and the reality of the Holocaust. To her, the Ghetto resembles the labyrinth and a Nazi soldier is the Minotaur. When the liquidation of the Ghetto begins and Germans start the search to remove children and elders from the Ghetto (in the operation known as Wielka Szpera), David hides his granddaughter in a special shelter. He gives Jutka a ball of thread to aid her survival just like Ariadne did to Theseus. Once the operation ends, he arranges for the girl and her aunt to be rescued out of the Ghetto.<\/span><\/p>\n

The novel depicts the realities of life in the \u0141\u00f3d\u017a Ghetto. Children play in the neighborhood of Ba\u0142uty, where the Ghetto is located. They sing songs in Yiddish and Hebrew, they often go hungry, while their parents and caretakers are being taken away by trains to an unknown location. The most dramatic scenes refer to Wielka Szpera, which began on 5 September 1942. The operation saw 15,000 people transported to the camp in Che\u0142mno upon Ner<\/a>, including 5862 children. The Nazi order was announced to the inhabitants of the Ghetto on 4 September by Chaim Mordechai Rumkowski<\/a>, the head of the Jewish Council of Elders<\/span>. Whereas historians are not unanimous in the assessment of his role in the Holocaust, Jutka\u2019s Insomnia<\/i> portrays Rumkowski in an unambiguously negative manner.<\/span><\/p>\n

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