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The champion of children : the story of Janusz Korczak / Tomek Bogacki.

Author: Bogacki, Tomasz.

Edition: 1st ed.

Publisher: New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2009.

ISBN: 9780374341367
0374341362

Description: 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill., col. map ; 30 cm.

Subject: Korczak, Janusz, 1878-1942 Juvenile literature.
Korczak, Janusz, 1878-1942.
Jews Poland Biography Juvenile literature.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Poland Biography Juvenile literature.
Jews Poland Biography.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Poland.
Poland Biography Juveniile literature.
Poland Biography.

Notes: "Frances Foster Books."

Summary: In 1912, Janusz Korczak designed an extraordinary orphanage for Jewish children in Warsaw, Poland and encouraged the orphans to govern themselves. The story of a courageous man who, during one of the grimmest moments in world history, dedicated his life's work, and ultimately his life itself, to children.

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