Loving Every Child
Loving Every Child

Author: Janusz Korczak

Publisher: Algonquin Books

Published: 2016-05-31

Total Pages: 97

ISBN-13: 1565127684

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“Korczak’s words resonate across the years and have amazing modern-day relevance.”—Jim Harding, director of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children Born in Poland in 1878, educator, physician, and legendary child advocate Janusz Korczak believed that simply understanding children is the key to being able to take care of them. It’s a basic premise too often overlooked. This collection of one hundred quotations and passages from Korczak’s writings provides valuable advice on how to take care of, respect, and love every child. In an inviting gift-book format, this is a heartfelt and helpful reminder of who we were as children and who we might become as parents.

Ghetto Diary
Ghetto Diary

Author: Janusz Korczak

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2003-01-01

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 9780300097429

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Reprint. Originally published: New York: Holocaust Library, c1978.

King of Children
King of Children

Author: Betty Jean Lifton

Publisher:

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781910383582

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This is the tragic story of Janusz Korczak (as featured in the major motion picture The Zookeeper's Wife) who chose to perish in Treblinka rather than abandon the Jewish orphans in his care. Korczak comes alive in this acclaimed biography by Betty Jean Lifton as the first known advocate of children's rights in Poland, and the man known as a savior of hundreds of orphans in the Warsaw ghetto. A pediatrician, educator, and Polish Jew, Janusz Korczak introduced progressive orphanages, serving both Jewish and Catholic children, in Warsaw. Determined to shield children from the injustices of the adult world, he built orphanages into 'just communities' complete with parliaments and courts. Korczak also founded the first national children's newspaper, testified on behalf of children in juvenile courts, and, through his writings, provided teachers and parents with a moral education. Known throughout Europe as a Pied Piper of destitute children prior to the onslaught of World War II, he assumed legendary status when on August 6, 1942, after refusing offers for his own safety, he defiantly led the orphans under his care in the Warsaw Ghetto to the trains that would take them to Treblinka. Introductions by Elie Wiesel, Curren Warf and Allison A. Eddy [Subject: Biography, Holocaust Studies, Jewish Studies, WWII, Children's Rights]

Mister Doctor
Mister Doctor

Author: Irène Cohen-Janca

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781554517152

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November 1940. A circus parade walks through the streets of Warsaw, waving a flag and singing. They are 160 Jewish children, forced by the Nazis to leave their beloved orphanage. It's a sad occasion, but led by Doctor Korczak, their inspirational director, the children are defiantly joyful.

A Voice for the Child
A Voice for the Child

Author: Janusz Korczak

Publisher: Thorsons Publishers

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13:

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Janusz Korczak brings a humane, compassionate voice to help us honor children as independent beings worthy of utmost respect.

King Matt the First
King Matt the First

Author: Janusz Korczak

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 0099488868

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"This moving fable follows the adventures of Matt who becomes king when just a child and decides to reform his country according to his own priorities. Ignoring his grown-up ministers, he decrees that children should be given chocolate every day and builds the best zoo in the world. He fights in battles, braves the jungle, and crosses the desert, but perhaps the most life-altering thing of all is that the lonely boy king finds true friends. This timeless book shows us not only what children's literature can be, but what children can be. "

The Champion of Children
The Champion of Children

Author: Tomasz Bogacki

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2009-09

Total Pages: 45

ISBN-13: 0374341362

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Presents the story of Janusz Korczak, a writer and doctor who established an orphanage for Jewish children in 1912 and who, together with his orphans, was sent by the Nazis to the Treblinka extermination camp in 1942.

When I Am Little Again ; And, The Child's Right to Respect
When I Am Little Again ; And, The Child's Right to Respect

Author: Janusz Korczak

Publisher: University Press of America

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 9780819183071

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These two works belong to that group of books written by one of this century's fiercest and most devoted child advocates. In the first, Korczak uses fiction to reveal the joys and sorrows of a child, a ten-year-old, juxtaposing them against the feelings of an adult as they both react to two days of adventure spent together. Two prominent themes in his writing are the exploration of the place of children in an adult world and the examination of the treatment and regard children are accorded in that world. In his second book, Korczak spells out his 'Magna Charta Libertatis' in defense of the child's right to respect, right to be him or herself, and, most importantly, right to respect for the strenuous effort expended in the process of 'growing up.'

The Good Doctor of Warsaw
The Good Doctor of Warsaw

Author: Elisabeth Gifford

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2021-01-05

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 1643136372

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Set in the ghettos of wartime Warsaw, this is a sweeping, poignant, and heartbreaking novel inspired by the true story of one doctor who was determined to protect two hundred Jewish orphans from extermination. Deeply in love and about to marry, students Misha and Sophia flee a Warsaw under Nazi occupation for a chance at freedom. Forced to return to the Warsaw ghetto, they help Misha's mentor, Dr Janusz Korczak, care for the two hundred children in his orphanage. As Korczak struggles to uphold the rights of even the smallest child in the face of unimaginable conditions, he becomes a beacon of hope for the thousands who live behind the walls. As the noose tightens around the ghetto, Misha and Sophia are torn from one another, forcing them to face their worst fears alone. They can only hope to find each other again one day . . . Meanwhile, refusing to leave the children unprotected, Korczak must confront a terrible darkness.