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Author Marrin, Albert, author.

Title A light in the darkness : Janusz Korczak, his orphans, and the Holocaust / Albert Marrin.

Publication Info. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2019]
copyright 2019

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 PHS Non-Fiction  940.53 Marrin    ---  Available
Edition First edition.
Description 388 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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Note Includes index.
Contents Prologue: the two saddest nations on earth -- The old doctor -- The hater -- The heart of the tragedy -- A dream so terrible -- Written in smoke and ashes -- Reckonings.
Indexed In: Junior Library Guild
Summary "Janusz Korczak was more than a good doctor. He was a hero. The Dr. Spock of his day, he established orphanages run on his principle of honoring children and shared his ideas with the public in books and on the radio. He famously said that 'children are not the people of tomorrow, but people today.' Korczak was a man ahead of his time, whose work ultimately became the basis for the U.N. Declaration of the Rights of the Child. Korczak was also a Polish Jew on the eve of World War II. He turned down multiple opportunities for escape, standing by the children in his orphanage as they became confined to the Warsaw Ghetto. Dressing them in their Sabbath finest, he led their march to the trains and ultimately perished with his children in Treblinka"--Provided by the publisher.
Audience Ages 15-17.
Grades 10-12.
1010 Lexile.
Awards A Junior Library Guild selection
Subject Korczak, Janusz, 1878-1942 -- Juvenile literature.
Korczak, Janusz, 1878-1942.
Korczak, Janusz, 1878-1942.
Treblinka (Concentration camp) -- Juvenile literature.
Treblinka (Concentration camp)
Holocaust victims -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Juvenile literature.
Orphanages -- Poland -- Warsaw -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Pediatricians -- Poland -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Concentration camps.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Holocaust, 1939-1945.
Pediatricians -- Poland -- Biography.
Getto warszawskie (Warsaw, Poland) -- Juvenile literature.
Getto warszawskie (Warsaw, Poland)
Genre/Form Biographies.
Added Title Janusz Korczak, his orphans, and the Holocaust
ISBN 9781524701215 : 17.85

 
    
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