Whose book is this?
With Korczak through Life
by
Michal Wroblewski-Pan Misza
Certainly, it is my father’s—Pan Misza’s—but in a way, it is also mine. My father’s dozens of densely written sheets have been transformed into this hundred-page volume.
Through photographs and archival documents at the end of each chapter, I bring to light information that was previously unknown or silenced. I describe the major crises of the Korczak Committee: from the Stalinist period of the 1950s, when Korczak's books were slated for pulping, to the late 1960s, when the committee's headquarters on Jasna Street in Warsaw were physically shut down, and many members were forced to leave Poland.
This book functions as a parallel narrative. The history of the Orphanage, Janusz Korczak, and the educator Pan Misza unfold sequentially, followed by my own document-illustrated commentary. In this way, the two stories overlap and illuminate one another.
Many of these documents were discovered only recently in archives across three continents. The truth about the fate of Korczak’s papers and glasses, saved by my father on August 5, 1942—the day of deportation to the Treblinka Death Camp—will be published in another book later this year.
Roman Wasserman Wróblewski
Certainly, it is my father’s—Pan Misza’s—but in a way, it is also mine. My father’s dozens of densely written sheets have been transformed into this hundred-page volume.
Through photographs and archival documents at the end of each chapter, I bring to light information that was previously unknown or silenced. I describe the major crises of the Korczak Committee: from the Stalinist period of the 1950s, when Korczak's books were slated for pulping, to the late 1960s, when the committee's headquarters on Jasna Street in Warsaw were physically shut down, and many members were forced to leave Poland.
This book functions as a parallel narrative. The history of the Orphanage, Janusz Korczak, and the educator Pan Misza unfold sequentially, followed by my own document-illustrated commentary. In this way, the two stories overlap and illuminate one another.
Many of these documents were discovered only recently in archives across three continents. The truth about the fate of Korczak’s papers and glasses, saved by my father on August 5, 1942—the day of deportation to the Treblinka Death Camp—will be published in another book later this year.
Roman Wasserman Wróblewski