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Summary: A Polish Jew on the eve of World War II, Janusz Korczak turned down opportunities for escape in order to stand by the children in his orphanage as they became confined to the Warsaw Ghetto. Dressing them in their Sabbath finest, he led their march to the trains and ultimately perished with his children in Treblinka. Marrin examines not just Korczak's life but his ideology of children: that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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Summary: One of the few survivors of the Nazi death camp Treblinka during World War II, the author tells the story of how he survived by becoming one of the workers whose grim task it was to tend to the dead and went on to take part in the Treblinka workers' revolt and later testified at a war-crime tribunal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2011