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               The King of Children: The Life and Death of Janusz Korczak.

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Janusz Korczak: A Selected Bibliography of Books and Articles and more.

BOOKS:

Bartoszewski, W. The Warsaw Ghetto: A Christian's Testimony. Boston: Beacon Press, 1987.

Bernheim, Mark. Father of the Orphans: The Story of Janusz Korczak. New York: Lodestar Books, 1989.

Cohen, Adir. The Gate of Light: Januz Korczak, the Educator and Writer Who Overcame the Holocaust. Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Presses, 1994.

Emanuel, Gabriel. Einstein; Children of Night : Two Plays. 1st ed. Toronto: Playwrights Canada, 1985.

Hyams, Joe. A Field of Buttercups. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, [1968].

Korczak, Janusz. Ghetto Diary. New York: Holocaust Library, 1978.
    (Synopsis: The pediatrician and children's advocate Janusz Korczak, a Jew, began his diary in 1940, only to put it aside
for two years. In May 1942, Korczak felt a growing sense of calamity, and, with the intention of transferring to someone in the future a record of his experiences, he began to record his thoughts and impressions of life in the Warsaw ghetto. In August, the same year, he turned down possible freedom and accompanied 190 orphaned children to the gas chambers at Treblinka. This emotional and very
personal journal describes the brutal conditions of the ghetto and the cruelty of the Nazis.  Recommended for high school students.)

Korczak, Janusz. The Ghetto Years, 1939-1942. [Lohame HaGeta' ot, Israel]: Ghetto Fighters' House; [Tel Aviv]: Hakibbutz Hameuchad Pub. House, [1980].

Korczak, Janusz. King Matt the First. Trans. Richard Lourie. Intro. Bruno Bettelheim. 1st ed. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1986.
    (Synopsis: Originally published in Polish in 1923 as Krol Macius Pierwszy . This novel is a children's book, as well known in Eastern Europe as Barrie's Peter Pan is here. King Matt is a ten-year old who becomes king on the death of his father. He institutes a series of disastrous reforms and comes to a bad end. Hilarious, worldly, very sad. The Jewish author was the Dr. Spock of Poland in his time, writing such books as How to Love Your Child, and well-known for his radio call-in show. He was director of an orphanage where children governed the community. The Nazis relocated the orphanage to the Warsaw ghetto, then sent the children to Treblinka. The doctor refused opportunities to escape, offered by Jews and Poles and Germans. He got on the train with his friends, and of course they all died.
Of interest here: King Matt first gains credibility as something more than a ward of his ministers by escaping the court and fighting as an infantryman in a trench war. This section, pp. 40-87, gives a thorough description of the soldier's life, from what it's like to travel on a freight car to wh+Xy you dig trenches. Korczak piles up miserable detail as relentlessly as Paul Fussell or Erich Remarque, but without passing on anger and despair as these authors do. He was a doctor in the Polish Army in WWI.)

Korczak, Janusz. Matthew, the Young King. Adapted by Edith and Sidney Sulkin from the Polish tale of Janusz Korczak. Ill. Irena Lorentowicz. New York: Roy Publishers [1945].

Korczak, Janusz. The Warsaw Ghetto Memoirs of Janusz Korczak. Trans. E.P. Kulawiec. Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1979.

Korczak, Janusz. When I Am Little Again; and, The Child's Right to Respect. Trans. E.P. Kulawiec. Fore. Valerie Phillips Parsegian. Ill. Gizela Gawronski. Lanham: University Press, 1992.

Krall, Hanna. Shielding the Flame: An Intimate Conversation with Dr. Marek Edelman, the Last Survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Trans. J. Stansinska and L. Wechler. New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1986.

Laird, Christa. Shadow of the Wall. New York: Grennwillow, 1990.

Lifton, Betty Jean. The King of Children: A Biography of Janusz Korczak. 1st ed. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1988.

Olczakowa, Hanna. Mister Doctor, the Life of Janusz Korczak. Trans. R. Jan Kruk and H. Gresswell. London: Davies, 1965.

Sosnowski, Kiryl. The Tragedy of Children Under Nazi Rule. New York: Howard Fertig, 1983.

ARTICLES:

Berman, A.: "The Fate of the Children in the Warsaw Ghetto" in The Catastrophe of European Jewry. Yisrael Gutman, ed. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1976. pp.400-421.

Berman, A. "Five Portraits of Ghetto Heroes: Emanuel Ringelblum, Historian of the Ghetto; Yanush Kortchak, Lover of Children; Mordecai Anielevitch, Commander of the Uprising; Andzhei Schmidt and Joseph Levartovsky, Molders of Unity." Jewish Currents 12, no. 4 (April, 1958): 15-21, 33.

Bernbaum, Israel. "Janusz Korczak on his Last Journey." Jewish Journal 17, no. 43 (Dec. 11, 1987): 5.

Bird, Thomas, et. al. "Janusz Korczak Symposium." Partisan Review 24, no. 1 (March, 1979): 22-45.

Cowan, Jack. "Janusz Korczak Anniversay Commemorated by U.N." Canadian Jewish Outlook, 16, no. 9 (Nov./Dec.,1978); 4, 8.

Frost, Shimon. "Janusz Korczak: His Life and Work." Jewish Education 33, no. 2 (Winter, 1963): 89-96.

Gilman, Susan. "Polish Film Puts Spotlight on Hero of Warsaw Ghetto." New York Jewish World 203., no. 45 (March 15, 1991): 48.

Grol, T. "Janusz Korczak- Pedagogue and Humanitarian." Trans. A. Berger. Canadian Jewish Outlook, 11, no. 1/2 (Jan./Feb., 1973): 10-11, 14.

Grol-Prokopczyk, Regina and Czeslav. "Child and Society: Reflections on Janusz Korczak's Educational Philosophy." Canadian Jewish Outlook, 15, no. 3 (Mar./Apr., 1977): 11-14.

"Janusz Korczak: The Man who Loved Children." Canadian Jewish Outlook, 16, no. 6 (June, 1978): 11-13.

Kurzweil, Zvi E. "Korczak's Educational Writings and the Image of the Child." Jewish Education 38, no. 1 (Jan., 1968): 19-28.

Lifton, Betty J. "The Last March of Janusz Korczak's Children." Moment 13, no. 4 (June, 1988): 12-23.

Przygeda, Zdzislaw. "A Human Being of a Crystal Heart." Canadian Jewish Outlook, 16, no. 7 (Aug./Sept., 1978): 11-12.

Scheinman, George. "I Knew Janusz Korczak." Canadian Jewish Outlook, 11, no. 4 (Apr./May, 1973): 9.

Veerman, Philip E.: "In the shadow of Janusz Korczak: The story of Stefania Wilczynska." The Melton Journal (Spring, 1990): 8, 15.
 

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