Book, Ghetto Diary[LS]

Janusz Korczak, the educator who preferred to die with his pupils rather than abandon them to their fate, became a legendary example of a pedagogue's commitment to a pedagogy centered on love, understanding and solidarity as means of making the individual personality flourish in the child and, in it, the ethical values that give meaning to human existence.. But on the other side of the myth there was the man. And it is the interweaving of feelings, ideas, experiences and coexistence that is drawn live in this Ghetto Diary, which bears witness to it. A pathetic document, written amidst the most terrible trials of Nazi terror, saved thanks to a friend, Igor Newerly, who buried it in the ruins of Warsaw and found it again after the war, projects through its pages the profound power of sensitization of a humanist figure in the fragmented, impulsive and mysterious exercise of his real humanity.