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Main Shelter Home
Agnieszka Witkowska-Krych
agnieszka.witkowska@poczta.onet.pl Author Biographyabsolwentka Międzywydziałowych Indywidualnych Studiów Humanistycznych na Uniwersytecie Warszawskim (kulturoznawstwo i hebraistyka) oraz socjologii w Collegium Civitas, kustosz w Korczakianum – pracowni naukowej Muzeum Warszawy, autorka artykułów naukowych i popularnonaukowych, doktorantka w Instytucie Kultury Polskiej UW. Przygotowuje pracę o opiece nad dziećmi w getcie warszawskim.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8510-9475
Korczakianum, Museum of Warsaw
Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały, No. 13 (2017), Pages: 372-398
Submission Date: 2020-10-17Publication Date: 2017-12-03
https://doi.org/10.32927/ZZSiM.364
Abstract
This text is an attempt to reconstruct the history of the Main Shelter Home (Główny Dom Schronienia), that is, the largest orphanage for youngest children operating in the Warsaw ghetto. Witkowska-Krych presents its history, which goes back to the mid-19th century, and its situation during the first year of the war and during its move into the ghetto and until the deportation to the death camp in Treblinka in August 1942. In light of the surviving official, press, and personal sources the author sketches the circumstances in which that unique institution had to function. She also writes about the individuals connected with that institution and those who worked for its benefit.
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Main Shelter Home , Warsaw ghetto , children , orphans , social welfare , Janusz Korczak
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