{"id":499,"date":"2019-02-11T16:55:55","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T15:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oczamidziecka.al.uw.edu.pl\/?page_id=499"},"modified":"2023-12-06T10:16:35","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T09:16:35","slug":"jest-taka-historia-opowiesc-o-januszu-korczaku-there-is-this-story-a-tale-of-janusz-korczak","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oczamidziecka.al.uw.edu.pl\/index.php\/en\/jest-taka-historia-opowiesc-o-januszu-korczaku-there-is-this-story-a-tale-of-janusz-korczak\/","title":{"rendered":"Jest taka historia. Opowie\u015b\u0107 o Januszu Korczaku [There Is This Story. A Tale of Janusz Korczak]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Author: Beata Ostrowicka<\/h6>\n\n\n\n
Illustrator: Jola Richter-Magnuszewska<\/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: 58<\/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

Jasiek, a boy of about nine years old, is ill and lying in bed, while his grandmother yet again tells him the story about Warsaw\u2019s Janusz Korczak Orphan Home<\/a>, where she lived before the war. She explains what life was like in the orphanage, describing the Old Doctor<\/a> and the woman who helped him, Pani Stefa (Stefania Wilczy\u0144ska<\/a>), as well as the rules of Korczak\u2019s pedagogy. The grandmother, Frania, left the House as a teenager and moved to the city of Kalisz. Her story ends at the outbreak of the war, the relocation of the orphanage to the Ghetto<\/a>, and the transportation of children and guardians to Treblinka<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Holocaust is mentioned on the final pages of the novel. The grandmother grows somber and her voice starts to tremble as she talks about the creation of the Warsaw Ghetto, the Orphan Home\u2019s repeated relocations, Korczak\u2019s struggle for food and money for the children, the typhoid epidemic and the final march to the Umschlagplatz<\/span><\/a>. Although these motifs appear both in the text and the illustrations, they are subdued and \u2013 similarly to Pami\u0119tnik Blumki<\/i>\u00a0[Blumka’s Diary]<\/a> by Iwona Chmielewska \u2013 presented in an indirect manner.<\/span><\/p>\n

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