Poslední cesta / Doktor Korzcak a jeho děti – Cohen-Janca Irene (2017)

On November 29, 1940, 192 children walked the streets of Warsaw. With heavy hearts but heads held high, they left their beautiful orphanage on Krochmalna Street, led by Doctor Korczak, and headed to the Warsaw ghetto. Their new home is much smaller, and the ghetto looks like a prison where more and more Jews are locked up every day. Fortunately, Doctor Korczak watches over them. He will accompany them even on their final journey... The true story of a man whose thoughts profoundly influenced the international Convention on the Rights of the Child. JANUSZ KORCZAK, the central figure of this book (born Henryk Goldszmit * July 22, 1878, Warsaw, † August 7, 1942, extermination camp Treblinka), was a Polish Jewish author of children's literature, pediatrician, educator, and publicist, also known by the nicknames Mr. Doctor or Old Doctor. In 1912, Janusz Korczak became the director of the Warsaw Jewish Orphanage. Inspired by Swiss educator Johann Pestalozzi and German educator Friedrich Fröbel, he led the orphanage with his collaborator Stefania Wilczyńska in accordance with the idea that "a child does not become a human being, it already is." The orphanage respected children's rights, allowing for the creation of an autonomous society where children take care of...