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A harrowing story of a Jewish doctor and the efforts he and his peers go through in order to protect their own in the ghettos of Warsaw.

Pain, heartbreak, love and anguish run throughout this story, transporting you back to a poignent part of history, making you appreciate the determination those suffering during this time had, to survive and selflessly protect others.

This book brought real tears to my eyes. A man who was truly an angel on earth, Dr Janusz Korczak, the director of the Children‘s Home in Warsaw. This book is simply written as the emotional pull is all that is needed to convey both the beauty and horrors that befell the innocent children. Heartbreaking read but worthwhile to honor the memory of those who risked everything.

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprisings began on the eve of Passover 1943. In just one year more than 460,000 Jews were imprisoned in an area less than 1. 5 square miles. The total death toll among the Jewish inhabitants of the Ghetto is estimated to be at least 300,000 killed by bullet or gas & another 92,000 victims of rampant hunger, disease and casualties of the uprising. In memory of those who were murdered I‘m planning on reading this over Passover.

No #GoldenBookmark for me but 2 new books that arrived in record time!!!!

I read this book a while ago but even typing the name into the search bar just now brought back all the feelings I experienced during the book. I cried on and off for days after reading this book. Janusz Korczak is a name that will stay with me forever, and I hope that one day I can achieve even a fraction of what he did in his life.

An incredible and painful true story. But One that needs to be told over and over again.. #TheGoodDoctorOfWarsaw #book #ww2

💕 Thank you Jess! #lmpbc bookmail and pretty gifts making me smile this morning- thank you! I‘m not really aware of this book, so really looking forward to it - but I‘m finishing up Elie Wiesel‘s Night at the moment - I might need a few days in between 😔.

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Thanks @TrishB for the #jbuk postcard! Coincidentally the person it depicts is mentioned in the book, tagged, that I finished today! Irena Sendlerowa, a war hero.
Great postcards!

First round of interviews today to get the job I've been doing temporarily for the past 6 months permanently. Was a staff engagement exercise and I had a yawner and a napper in the group, oh dear...! 😴😴😴 Litsy bookmail to come home to makes it all ok - thank you so much @Birdsong28 and @Christine11 !! Xxx #lmpbc #jbuk

This book was heartbreaking. Based in the ghetto of Warsaw and a Doctor who ran a children's orphanage and how they begged, borrowed from others so that they could feed and care for the children whose parents had died or given them up for a better life.
As history tells us ,this didn't happen and the Doctor and his children perished in Treblinka. The book is mostly factual, by no means a cheerful tale, but one of survival for just 1% of Jews.