A Light in the Darkness by Albert Marrin

Extensive notes for each chapter, accompanied by a comprehensive bibliography and an excellent index, make this book a good research source. Often disturbing black-and-white photos enhance the text. Marrin describes the horrors of the Holocaust in graphic detail.

In a larger sense, this volume is about Hitler, his racist agenda, and his attitude toward children (and humanity in general), which stands in sharp contrast to the philosophy of Korczak.

On August 5, 1942, a Nazi patrol rounded up everyone in the Dom Sierot orphanage and marched them to trains headed to Treblinka. Korczak protected the orphans through the Holocaust, turning down several opportunities to escape. He believed that children should be treated with respect and as individuals, rather than as objects to be molded by adults. Editions for A Light in the Darkness: Janusz Korczak, His Orphans, and the Holocaust: 1524701203 (Hardcover published in 2019), 0593105133 (Audio CD publ. Nicknamed the Old Doctor, he is primarily known for his work caring for orphans in the Warsaw ghetto. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read A Light in the Darkness: Janusz Korczak, His Orphans, and the Holocaust. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Korczak was a pediatrician who served Poland in three wars and volunteered for World War II. A Light in the Darkness: Janusz Korczak, His Orphans, and the Holocaust - Ebook written by Albert Marrin. The outline of his life is sketchy, as most documents have been lost. (Sept.Gr 7 Up–Readers of Marrin’s new biography will learn that the only memorial stone in the cemetery of the razed Treblinka extermination camp is that of Janusz Korczak (the pen name of Henryk Goldszmit). Still, there is much to learn and contemplate in this dense yet accessible examination. He is often absent from the book, though, as Marrin discusses, in great detail, other topics connected to WWII. Korczak is depicted as a passionate humanitarian with an extraordinary respect and love for children, and as one whose activism was the seed of the human rights movement-in particular, the rights of children. The narrative, accompanied by black-and-white photos, conveys the horrors of wartime with gruesome details, such as Nazis throwing infants into the air for target practice, and includes tangential subjects, such as sterilization laws in America. In straightforward, descriptive language, Marrin ( Uprooted: The Japanese American Experience During World War II) explores a vast array of subjects linked to the war, including the history of Palestine and of Judaism in Poland, and he devotes a significant number of pages to a biographical portrait of Adolf Hitler and the growth of Nazism.

Much more than a biography, Marrin’s introduction to this heroic figure offers an exhaustive study of WWII in Poland and Germany. Janusz Korczak, a Polish-Jewish pediatrician and writer, established a home for orphans in 1912 and cared for Jewish children throughout both world wars.

A Light in the Darkness by Albert Marrin