THE "Pan Doctor"of war-striven Warsaw in Hitler's ghastly apocalypse has been central to many great works of fiction and fact.
As an author, humanitarian, paediatrician, pedagogue and defender of children's rights Janusz Korczak has been the inspiration in theater, opera, TV, and film.
British author Elizabeth Gifford is the latest to delve into the tragic poignancy of his humanistic commitment and courage that ended in the grimness of Treblinka.
But in her well-crafted writing style,that combines nuance and neat thought and storytelling, she brings together the truth of two dedicated and loving souls from the Warsaw ghetto Misha and Sophia who are greatly influenced by the "Pan Doctor" and whose accounts of his work and struggles -and of their own -- in such unthinkable circumstances form the basis of promises to be a riveting work of
fictionalised fact.
These are the sort of books that need to be written and to be read - and it in Ms
Gifford's gift that we find can also appreciate the unimaginable.
As an author, humanitarian, paediatrician, pedagogue and defender of children's rights Janusz Korczak has been the inspiration in theater, opera, TV, and film.
British author Elizabeth Gifford is the latest to delve into the tragic poignancy of his humanistic commitment and courage that ended in the grimness of Treblinka.
But in her well-crafted writing style,that combines nuance and neat thought and storytelling, she brings together the truth of two dedicated and loving souls from the Warsaw ghetto Misha and Sophia who are greatly influenced by the "Pan Doctor" and whose accounts of his work and struggles -and of their own -- in such unthinkable circumstances form the basis of promises to be a riveting work of
fictionalised fact.
These are the sort of books that need to be written and to be read - and it in Ms
Gifford's gift that we find can also appreciate the unimaginable.