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The plot of the film is a fictionalized view of the last days of life of famed Polish educator Janusz Korczak and his tragic commitment to protecting Jewish orphans during the World War II NAZI occupation of Poland. The outlines of the plot are all to true, the fictionalized component is the indivisual interactions between Dr. Korczak and the children. As the NAZIs murdered the children and Dr. Korczak there is no way to document these interactions. Jewish doctor Henryk Goldszmit, better known as Janusz Korczak, was a complex man. He is best rembered today as a man of extrodinary principles who maintaine them in the face of abject evil. He was known to shout at German officers, an act that would normally mean death for a Jews in occupied Poland. Korczac was himself Jewish, but he was so famous a doctor that he manages to get away with things that no ordinary Jew could. He accompanies his orphans and sets up an orphanage in the terribly crowded Wardaw Ghetto. There he cares for 200 homeless children. Dr. Korczak implemented his experimental educational methods. He organized a way of life for his orohans. Part of it is a system of child self-government. This idealized system of justice provides a stark contrast to the the mosterous evil that surrounds them outside the orphanage. On the streets around the orphanage, children are starving to death. Bodies lie on the street as people walk by. Some of the boys escape temporarily from the ghetto to steal
food. The film has a number of subplots. One of the older boys of the orphanage is an adolescent about 15 years old who falls in love with a non-Jewish girl. Dr. Korczak consoles by praising his incipient manhood. The boy's name was Joseph. The Ghetto's mayor guarantees Dr. Korczak that the orphanas will be saved. Dr. Korczak manages to raise food and money from the well-to-do Jews in the orphanage. At the end, he refuses to accept a Swiss passport and boards the transport to the Treblinka transport with his orphans. He knows very well what they face. Treblinka of course is one of the NAZI death camps where many bof the Warsaw Ghetto Jews were gassed.
The plot of the film is a fictionalized view of the last days of life of famed Polish educator Janusz Korczak and his tragic commitment to protecting Jewish orphans during the World War II NAZI occupation of Poland. The outlines of the plot are all to true, the fictionalized component is the indivisual interactions between Dr. Korczak and the children. As the NAZIs murdered the children and Dr. Korczak there is no way to document these interactions.
Jewish doctor Henryk Goldszmit, better known as Janusz Korczak, was a complex man. He is best rembered today as a man of extrodinary principles who maintaine them in the face of abject evil. He was known to shout at German officers, an act that would normally mean death for a Jews in occupied Poland. Korczac was himself Jewish, but he was so famous a doctor that he manages to get away with things that no ordinary Jew could.
Dr. Korczak accompanies his orphans and sets up an orphanage in the terribly crowded Wardaw Ghetto. There he cares for 200 homeless children. He does his best to create an air of normality. This of course is an impossibility, but Dr. Korczak does his best. He organizes plays and other activities the boys might have pursued in normal times. Dr. Korczak also implemented his experimental educational methods. He organized a way of life for his orohans. Part of it is a system of child self-government. This idealized system of justice provides a stark contrast to the the mosterous evil that surrounds them outside the orphanage. The Ghetto's mayor guarantees Dr. Korczak that the orphanas will be saved. Dr. Korczak manages to raise food and money from the well-to-do Jews in the orphanage.
The NAZIs restricted the amount of food ebtering the Ghetto. The result was starvation. On the streets around the orphanage, children are starving to death. Bodies lie on the street as people walk by. Some of the boys escape temporarily from the ghetto to steal food.
The film has a number of subplots. One of the older boys of the orphanage is an adolescent about 15 years old who falls in love with a non-Jewish girl. Dr. Korczak consoles by praising his incipient manhood. The boy's name was Joseph.
At the end, he refuses to accept a Swiss passport and boards the transport to the Treblinka transport with his orphans. He knows very well what they face. Treblinka of course is one of the NAZI death camps where many of the Warsaw Ghetto Jews were gassed.
We have a question about the film. We are unsure how the Jewish orphan Joseph comes in contact with the gentile girl. A reader writes, "There are some non-Jewish shops inside the ghetto, I believe. The girl's father is a shopkeeper, who doesn't want his daughter associating with a Jewish boy. Some of the staff of the orphanage seem to be non-Jewish as well, although this isn't terribly clear from the subtitles. Some of the staff of the orphanage seem to be non-Jewish as well, although this isn't terribly clear from the subtitles.
" HBC's understanding of the Ghetto is that all non-Jews were first evicted before the Ghetto was established. Perhaps the German dialog explains this better.
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