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Lifton, Betty Jean.

The king of children : a biography of Janusz Korczak / Betty Jean Lifton.

1st ed.

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1988.

404 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

A detailed biography of Janusz Korczak (1878-1942) - doctor, teacher, writer and educational theorist - who was deported along with the children of his orphanage in August 1942 from the Warsaw ghetto to Treblinka, where they perished. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism).

Korczak, Janusz, 1878-1942.

Educators -- Poland -- Biography.

Authors, Polish -- 20th century -- Biography.

Jews -- Poland -- Warsaw -- Biography.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Warsaw.

Biographies.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-388) and index.

Who was Janusz Korczak -- Child of the drawing room -- Heritage -- Confessions of a butterfly -- Which way -- Muzzle on the soul -- Little Hospital -- Summer camps -- Decision -- Children's republic -- How to love a child -- Sad madame -- Independence -- Spirit of King Matt -- One hundred children -- Taming the beast -- Striving for justice -- Long live the herring -- Madame Stefa -- Not every truth can be blown on a trumpet -- Happiest period -- Crossorads -- Palestine -- Old doctor -- Hard truth of Moses -- Loneliness -- Religion of the child -- September 1939 -- Arrest -- Ghetoo -- All are equal -- Our children must live -- Last seder -- Gheto diary: May 1942 -- Strange happenings -- Post office -- Yesterday's rainbow -- Last March: August 6, 1942 -- Epliogue: Treblinka and after -- Declartion of children's rights

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