Ostatni tekst autorstwa Janusza Korczaka opublikowany za jego życia

Abstract

AGNIESZKA WITKOWSKA-KRYCH University of Warsaw JANUSZ KORCZAK’S LAST TEXT PUBLISHED IN HIS LIFETIME The article presents and analyses Janusz Korczak’s last text published in his lifetime. The material in question is a short letter to the editor of “Gazeta Żydowska” (“Jewish Gazette”), the newspaper sanctioned by the German authorities and directed to the inhabitants of ghettos of the General Government, written by Korczak as an answer to the previous Guta Ejzencwajg’s panegyric report on the functioning of The Orphans’ Home directed by Korczak. Referring to not fully confirmed data and statements, Korczak depicts the orphanage as a “common work,” giving also an insight into how it worked in the last months of the war when ghetto still existed. The text, being both private (as a letter) and public (as an accessible press démenti), is an interesting complement to Korczak’s private notes written in the walls of the capital city’s Jewish closed quarter.