The Janusz Korczak Living Heritage Association - Föreningen för Janusz Korczaks Levande Arv and Michał Wasserman Wróblewski, 40 & 100

Photo taken inside Dom Sierot Orphanage at 92 Krochmalna in Warszawa. In the right corner Pan Misza - Michal Wasserman Wroblewski and on the left Janusz Korczak surrounded by happy children.

My fathers first paper about Janusz Korczak and the fate of 239 children was published year 1944, during WWII.

I am remembering that time so clearly, early seventies, when The Janusz Korczak Living Heritage Association started. 40 years ago! Thanks to my mother and father. After being in Sweden just for one year, they were working actively in their common field - Pedagogy at the Stockholm Teacher's College (Today part of the University of Stockholm). 

At that time Janusz Korczak and his work was almost unknown in Sweden. My parents forwarded English translations to young Swedish researchers (at that time) and so it started. Place was Stockholm, Svenska Dagbladets house at Kungsholmen. My parents new friends from 1969 emigration joined them and supported the idea of The Janusz Korczak Living Heritage Association - Föreningen för Janusz Korczaks Levande Arv - Stowarzyszenie Korczakowskiego Dziedzictwa. 

Today, they are gone now, almost all of them. Each time I am going to my parents grave, I am also visiting their friends graves. I am "exchanging" few words with them. My fathers first paper about Janusz Korczak was published year 1944, during WWII. On October 29, 2011), it is 100 years after Pan Misza - Michał Wasserman Wróblewski, was born and my memories about Him are published in a Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza. 

  

As it is 11.11.11 today; I have to add another 11. 11 years is a span of time (1931-1942), when my father worked at Dom Sierot with Janusz Korczak. First as an apprentice and thereafter as a teacher and educator. The only educator from the Orphanage at 16 Sienna street that survived the deportation on August 5, 1942 and the Holocaust.

Photo taken at Rózyczka summer camp. Janusz Korczak in the middle, Pan Misza - Michal Wasserman Wroblewski on the right from Janusz Korczak and Pani Saba on the left.

Pan Misza - Michal Wasserman Wroblewski and his wife Zofia Lucyna Rozental Wróblewska at the Janusz Korczak monument at Jewish Cemetery in Warsaw.

Bildens andra sida - Równie ciekawa jest druga strona zdjęcia, z oryginalnymi..

Bilden: Krościenko,
min mor och far.
Mamma var 20 år och Pappa 27.

Året var 1938 och de var dödskära













Równie ciekawa jest druga strona zdjęcia, z oryginalnymi zapiskami i data 23 VI 1941. Co robili tego dnia. Byli na pewno w getcie warszawskim. 23 czerwca 1941 roku, to akurat równo rok jeden miesiac przed wielka akcja deportacyjna i morderstwem w Treblince.

23 VI 1941

Wierzmy że będziemy razem i będzie tak dobrze jak w Krościenku.

Misza

Krościenko, På en av fotografier som jag inte har, men har memorerat för resten av livet där Pappa bar mamma på en liten träbro. Troligen var det vid Strwiąż floden som flyter ihop med Dunajec. Pappa brukade skoja om den bilden då han stå med mamma med lite böjda ben. Mammas vikt är orsaken.

Ok. 120 miejscowych Żydów hitlerowcy rozstrzelali pod skarpą koło rzeki Strwiąż. Ich zbiorowa mogiła nadal pozostaje nieoznaczona.

I Krościenko träffade min mor Zina Feldman Gasko som blev hennes trogna vännina. Vi bodde i samma trappuppgång i Warszawa och Zina flyttade samtidigt med mina föräldrar till Stockholm år 1969.