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 238
