The famous children book author, once wrote that “The lives of great men are like legends, difficult but beautiful”. In order to understand one’s emotions and wishes, we must turn to the infant. In his book, Janusz explains that Napoleon suffered from tetanus and that Bismarck had rickets, and both of them, as many other people were infants before they became men. As he famously says, “You yourself are the child whom you must learn to know, rear, and above all, enlighten”, Janusz was trying to teach parents that children are individual beings, not their property.Īnd most importantly, Janusz was probably among the first, even before Freud, who recognized the importance of infancy in human development. Janusz suggests that parents should not see their children as the person they were meant to be. The main thesis in the book is that you cannot love your child, or another’s individual child until you see him as a separate being. Janusz was writing the book during the war, and because of the long war, the manuscript grew to hundreds of pages. At the end, it became a manuscript of child development, but not in the usual and common way. In it, Korczak intended to share the experience of his work as a pedestrian.
One of the most popular books by Janusz is the pamphlet “How to love a child”. Instead, the director of the orphanage refused, and stayed with his children as they were all being killed. Marching, with his head bent forward, Janusz hold the hand of a child, followed by few nurses and two hundred children, all dressed in their clean cloths.Īnd when they were almost at the altar, an SS officer recognized Korczak, and offered him to help him escape and safe his life. Nicely dressed and in a happy mood, the children were taken to Treblinka where they would later be killed in the gas chamber, along with their director. The director told the orphans to wear their best clothes, and as they came out into the yard, they were taken by an SS people. Instead, Janusz told the orphans that they will go out in to the country, cheering them and making them feel happy. Faced with the inevitable, the director chose to stay with his children, and sacrifice his own freedom, as he could have left the building and be spared. It is in those gas chambers that millions of Jews lost their lives.ĭuring the Grossaktion of Warsaw, Janusz was working as a director of an orphanage. A camp equipped with gas chambers, Treblinka was disguised as place with showers for the processing of transports of people. During the operation, known as the Grossaktion of Warsaw, Jews were terrorized and sent to their deaths at Treblinka, one of the most horrifying Nazi camp for extermination. Between July and September in 1942, Nazi began an operation of mass extermination of Jews from the ghetto in Warsaw. However, his penultimate moment came in 1942, during the Grossaktion of Warsaw. Korczak was famous in Poland for his job with orphans. Suffering does not make men noble, so Janusz tried to help as much as he could. Quite the contrary, the whole world is submerged in blood and fire, as well as tears and mourning. Korczak famously said that it is not “only the Jews who suffer” during the World War II. It is that determination and wish that made Janusz the man he was, one of the few people who were ready and determined to sacrifice themselves for the greater good. The young utopian in the book, King Matt, dreamed of making a better world for children. It is there where readers can see Janusz as the small and vulnerable man he was, the man whose eyes were intense and sad, and a man whose bald head disappears into the white space.
One of the two is King Matt the First, on which Korczak poses as a young boy. Even though he has written more than 15 books, only two have been translated to English. Who was Janusz Korczak? It is a question for most people outside Poland and Europe, since the modest, disciplined man was not popular outside of his country.
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