Korczak at the window at 33 Chłodna street - May - June 1941!

 

Once, during early Summer when at 33 Chłodna street Korczak was looking through the window at the German army and tanks moving west. Chłodna was actually one of the main streets in Warsaw running in the West-Est direction to the bridge at the Wisla river.

 The school at 33 Chłodna street prior to WWII. Korczak's Orphanage moved into this building in November 1940. 

In late 1940 (November 29th) the Orphanage Dom Sierot was definitely moved to a "ghetto area" and temporarily located on 33 Chłodna street, thus after expulsion from its previous location on Krochmalna 92.

Subsequently, when that section of Chłodna Street was excluded from the ghetto, Korczak transferred the Orphanage Dom Sierot to 16 Sienna Street from where the deportation to Umschlagplatz and thereafter to the death camp Treblinka took place on August 5th, 1942. 

Once, during early Summer when at 33 Chłodna street Korczak was looking through the window at the German army and tanks moving west. Chłodna was actually one of the main streets in Warsaw running in the West-Est direction to the bridge at the Wisla river.

Most probably it was May-June 1941 while Germans were preparing Barbarossa action - attack and war against Sovjet Union.

Michal Zylberberg, a friend of Korczak that lived in the same building as the Orphanage wrote in his diary:

We were standing with Janusz Korczak at the windows of 33 Chłodna street. We stared from the Orphanage at the massed army and noted enormous tanks. Written on them was "Stalin vir kommen - We are coming Stalin!" Dr. Korczak thought that was a happy omen for the Jews. He was so certain that in a matter of days Russia will crash Germens. It was a ray of hope for every Jew behind the ghetto walls.