A Light in the Darkness by Albert Marrin

He contrasts this with Adolf Hitler's life and his ideology of children: that children are nothing more than tools of the state.Īnd throughout, Marrin draws readers into the Warsaw Ghetto. In it, renowned nonfiction master Albert Marrin examines not just Janusz Korczak's life but his ideology of children: that children are valuable in and of themselves, as individuals.

Dressing them in their Sabbath finest, he led their march to the trains and ultimately perished with his children in Treblinka.īut this book is much more than a biography. He turned down multiple opportunities for escape, standing by the children in his orphanage as they became confined to the Warsaw Ghetto. Korczak was also a Polish Jew on the eve of World War II. He famously said that 'children are not the people of tomorrow, but people today.' Korczak was a man ahead of his time, whose work ultimately became the basis for the U.N. Spock of his day, he established orphanages run on his principle of honoring children and shared his ideas with the public in books and on the radio.

Janusz Korczak was more than a good doctor. This is an unforgettable portrait of a man whose compassion in even the darkest hours reminds us what is possible.From National Book Award Finalist Albert Marrin comes the moving story of Janusz Korczak, the heroic Polish Jewish doctor who devoted his life to children, perishing with them in the Holocaust. And how one man came to represent the conscience and the soul of humanity. Who worked to save lives and who tried to enrich themselves on other people's suffering. How Jews within and Poles without responded. He contrasts this with Adolf Hitler's life and his ideology of children: that children are nothing more than tools of the state.Īnd throughout, Marrin draws readers into the Warsaw Ghetto.

From National Book Award Finalist Albert Marrin comes the moving story of Janusz Korczak, the heroic Polish Jewish doctor who devoted his life to children, perishing with them in the Holocaust.

A Light in the Darkness by Albert Marrin