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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I found this biography very well-written, detailed and moving. Janusz Korczak is barely known in the West today, and those who have heard of him usually only know of the manner of his death: he followed the children in his orphanage to Treblinka rather than abandon them and save his own life. But there is a lot more to Korczak than the way he died, as this book shows. You really get a sense of the "whole man," and the times in which he lived. He was a brilliant doctor, pedagogue, children's writer and humanitarian, and he was also very eccentric, prickly with most adults, and had a highly developed sense of humor. The world needs more people like Korczak, and more biographies like this one. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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The life of a moral exemplar comes alive in this acclaimed biography of the first known advocate of children's rights in Polandthe 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, andthrough his works How to Love a Child and How to Respect a Childprovided 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. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Władysław Szpilman schreibt als Augenzeuge des Abtransports die Szene in seinen Memoiren: „Bestimmt hat der ‚Alte Doktor‘ noch in der Gaskammer, als das Zyklon schon die kindlichen Kehlen würgte und in den Herzen der Waisen Angst an die Stelle von Freude und Hoffnung trat, mit letzter Anstrengung geflüstert: ‚Nichts, das ist nichts, Kinder‘ um wenigstens seinen kleinen Zöglingen den Schrecken des Übergangs vom Leben in den Tod zu ersparen.“
Das Buch beschreibt aber vor allem Korczaks Leben, seine Werke und Gedanken, aus denen „die Rechte der Kinder“ bekannt sind und hervorstechen. Aber natürlich kennen wir auch seine König-Macius-Erzählung (bzw. früher König Hänschen), die zu den Klassikern der Kinderliteratur zählt und in den 2000ern als Zeichentrickserie im Kika lief.
Das Buch zeigt aber auch Korzcaks Widersprüchlichkeit und Zerrissenheit - niemals gegenüber den Kindern- aber gegen sich selbst, die Umstände seines Lebens in dem er vom Polen zum Juden wurde.
Es ist ein gutes Buch, wie es einen guten Stoff erzählt. ( )