A Light in the Darkness: Janusz Korczak, His Orphans, and the Holocaust by Albert Marrin

A Light in the Darkness: Janusz Korczak, His Orphans, and the Holocaust

Albert Marrin

388 pages first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction biography history emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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The story of Janusz Korczak, the heroic Polish Jewish doctor who devoted his life to children, perishing with them in the Holocaust.Janusz Korczak was more than a good doctor. He was a hero. The Dr. Spock of his day, he established orphanages run ...

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