9 days before WWII started, Korczak wrote this letter. It confirms his plans for an Aliyah to Eretz Israel

9 days before WWII started, Korczak wrote this letter. It confirms his plans for an Aliyah to Eretz Israel

The letter above is written by Korczak to his close friend, Zerubawel Gilead living in the kibbutz Ein Harod. 

It is a letter in which, among other things, Korczak mentions the new book he is planning to write "King David the Second", a kind of a continuation of "King Matt the First". In his planned book, there will be a minister of fun and games for children. He says that the children in Ein Harod should learn how to make kites! 

At the end of the letter, Korczak mentions that he spent one month, July, at the village. It means together with the orphanage children in Goclawek at Rózyczka camp. In the next sentence, he writes that he does not want a reply to this letter as he hopes to meet in person. This sentence is clearly confirming his plans for an aliyah. This is written just 9 days before the start of WWII. It is obvious that it is Korczak that is going to travel to his friend, Zerubawel Gilead, and not vice versa as Zerubawel Gilead just left Poland after being there on his mission there for 19 months. He returned on the eve of the war. Korczak is not mentioning the war and there is no information about the war in the Korczaks newspaper Maly Przeglad which appeared also on the first day of WWII, September 1st, 1939. It is also known that in 1937 Korczak asked the committee of Ein Harod kibbutz to issue a letter confirming that Korczak will be employed at the kibbutz as responsible for the daycare house for the children. So it is most likely that Korczak was on his way to Erec Israel when WWII started.

Zerubawel reminisces in his book that when he went to Korczak in Warsaw to congratulate Korczak on his book, he received the reply:
I wrote 'The Stubborn Boy' now – in these times, when cruelty and spiritual slavery weaken us, when the Nazi madness is rising around us. I wrote it so the children growing up today knew that there are also other men in the world, men who have sacrificed and keep sacrificing their lives not to destroy other men, but to enrich and ennoble the human being".