English
Polish
Janusz Korczak’s Ghetto Diary and War-Time Sources from Korczak’s Orphanage. How Did They Survive?
Agnieszka Witkowska-Krych
redakcja@holocaustresearch.pl Bioabsolwentka Międzywydziałowych Indywidualnych Studiów Humanistycznych na UW oraz socjologii w Collegium Civitas; kulturoznawczyni, hebraistka i edukatorka, pracuje w Ośrodku Dokumentacji i Badań Korczakianum, będącym oddziałem Muzeum Historycznego m.st. Warszawy. Szczególnie interesuje się antropologią wojennej codzienności
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8510-9475
KOrczakianum Documentation and Research Center, Historical Museum of Warsaw
Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały, No. 8 (2012), pages: 323-327
Publication date: 2012-12-02
Abstract
This article attempts to trace the way in which the war-time sources created during 1939–1942 in Janusz Korczak’s Orphanage have survived. It talks mostly about Korczak’s Ghetto Diary written in the ghetto from May to 4 August 1942. It also discusses the issue of the collection of documents revealed in Israel in 1988 which regarded the war-time fate of the Old Doctor, the children from the Orphanage and the Main Shelter Home (the place where Korczak also worked from a short period of time). Basing on the testimony the author of the text suggests a possible version of the events which contributed to the fact that the text left the closed district and survived the war
Keywords
Janusz Korczak, Orphanage, Main Shelter Home (Główny Dom Schronienia), war, Warsaw ghetto, children, sources, personal document literature
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Other articles by the same auhtor(s)
- Agnieszka Witkowska-Krych, Main Shelter Home , Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały: No. 13 (2017)
- Agnieszka Witkowska-Krych, Joanna Beata Michlic, Piętno Zagłady. Wojenna i powojenna historia oraz pamięć żydowskich dzieci ocalałych w Polsce [Agnieszka Witkowska-Krych] , Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały: No. 17 (2021)
