New litografi of Janusz Korczak found among famous Jews in the Cigarette picture Card Album.

Jurek (Jerzy) Snopek, my friend and co-author of the latest book about Janusz Korczak and the Orphanages, Dom Sierot and Nasz Dom, called me yesterday evening to say that an unknown lithograph is on sale at auction that ends today, just after midnight.

He was very excited, and so I became. To start with, we were not sure what the auction was about. During the evening and in the morning the next day, with the help of our Israeli friends, we knew almost everything about this particular lithograph. Almost everything, as we still do not know the artist behind that particular item.

To start with, we were rather surprised that the size of the item that we actually bought at 00.42 AM was very small, just a few centimeters, a collector's item that was sold together with cigarettes, as a part of the collection of the famous Jews. This particular collection consisted of 288 cards.

The collectors could, using such special cards, here the collection that consisted of 288 cards, mark the cards they already had in their collection.

Janusz Korczak 

A writer and educator in Poland, he studied as a distinguished pediatrician. However, he gained his greatest success as a writer and educator. For years, he ran an orphanage, fought for children's emancipation, and developed new teaching methods. For years, he edited a children's newspaper. His famous books include: "King Matthias," "The Child from the Salon," "Face to Face with God," and many others. In the past, an assimilationist. For years, he has been moving closer to Zionism through the Hashomer Hatzair and Halutz movements. He visited Eretz Israel (Palestine) several times. This collection contains 288 paintings.


The Kedem cigarette company released several series of trade cards featuring different subjects. Among others, a variety of famous people from around the world, flags of different countries, birds, fish work to build kibbutz, roads, and ports. These cards were printed in

Eretz Israel (Palestine) was a popular collectible item in the 1930s and 1940s.

One of the card sets that could be collected  included well-known Jews, such as famous scientists as Albert Einstein, Ludwik Zamenhof, Fraud 

One of the cards in such as set of 288 included Janusz Korczak. He was presented as:

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