Sunday, October 26, 2025

עם קורצ'אק לאורך כל חיי - With Korczak throughout my entire life.

עם קורצ'אק לאורך כל חיי - Janusz Korczak sitting with his student/teachrs at the Summer Camp at Goclawek.

עם קורצ'אק לאורך כל חיי

Translation of this Hebrew title of my father's book is "With Korczak throughout my entire life". I think that the title might actually reflect the situation for numerous Korczak´s scholars, pupils, and teachers from both Dom Sierot and Nasz Dom orphanages. Since Korczak was murdered on August 5th, 1942, numerous people have had him as a silent partner throughout their entire lives.

One of them was my father, who worked at the Dom Sierot orphanage between 1933-1942. He was not alone! It also affected many who never met him.

Will my father´s book appear in Hebrew? I hope so! Written in Polish* (1st and 2nd ed.), it will soon appear in English** for the first time.

I am seeking someone interested in acquiring the rights to publish the book in Hebrew. As a basis for translation, there is both a Polish and an English edition from 2025.

In edition, 2025, there is a new, modern part of the book with previously unknown documents and descriptions of them. Photographs of Korczak and the children have been colored so that the book becomes more accessible to a new generation of readers.

I have been against the colorization of old photos of Janusz Korczak and his children for many years. I just felt that they should stay in the way the photographer took them.
However, when I found several details in the photos that were never recognized earlier, I actually changed my opinion.

What I enjoy most in all the photos connected to Korczak and the orphanage children is that the orphanage children look happy in all black and white and also in recently colored photos, thanks to Janusz Korczak.

ני מחפש מישהו שירצה לקחת על עצמו את הזכויות להוצאת הספר בעברית. כבסיס לתרגום, ישנה מהדורה פולנית ומהדורה אנגלית משנת 2025.
במהדורה זו, ישנו חלק חדש ומודרני של הספר עם מסמכים לא ידועים קודם לכן ותיאורים שלהם.
תמונות של קורצ'אק והילדים צובעו כדי שהספר יהפוך לנגיש יותר לדור חדש של קוראים.

"With Korczak throughout my entire life" - 2nd Polish edition 2025.


What I enjoy most in all the photos connected to Korczak and the orphanage children is that the orphanage children look happy in all black and white and also in recently colored photos, thanks to Janusz Korczak.

Janusz Korczak and my father, Michal Wasserman (Wroblewski) - an educator at the orphanage, 1933-1942. What I enjoy most in all the photos connected to Korczak and the orphanage children is that the orphanage children look happy in all black and white and also in recently colored photos, thanks to Janusz Korczak.


* Polish title "Z Korczakiem przez życie" - 2025 - Publishing house: STHLM-Grav.
** English Title "With Korczak throughout life" - 2025 - Publishing house: STHLM-Grav.