Library: Poland

ID Code Title Author Description Home(s)
13935 POL1 The King of Children: The Life and Death of Janusz Korczak Betty Jean Lifton, Chatto & Windus Ltd, 1988 A biography of Janusz Korczak a Jewish Polish paediatrician and educator who pioneered progressive orphanages serving both Jewish and Catholic children in Warsaw, Poland.
13936 POL2 Frozen In Terror Iwona Korzeniewski A recount of life as an orphan and in Polish orphanage under Communist rule. Iwona Korzeniewski's recounts her experience of being placed in a Polish orphanage at the age of four years after her mother passes away. This three page lived experience piece details Iwona's life as an adult living with the damaging effects of her childhood.