Janusz Korczak, Aleksander Lewin and the Polish orphanage in Monetna in the Urals
Janusz Korczak, Aleksander Lewin and the Polish orphanage in Monetna in the Urals
Author(s): Daniel BoćkowskiSubject(s): History of ideas, Political history, Social history, Recent History (1900 till today), WW II and following years (1940 - 1949)
Published by: Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Poles in exile in the USSR; the orphanage in Monetna; Soviet-Polish relations during World War II
Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the fate while in exile of the eminent Polish pedagogue Aleksander Lewin, who during the World War II ran a Polish orphanage in the village of Monetna in the Sverdlovsk oblast. Children placed there came from Polish families forcibly deported deep into the USSR territories during the Soviet occupation of the Second Polish Republic in 1939–1941. Lewin was associated with Janusz Korczak while studying new theories of education. In the Soviet Union, he tried to combine Korczak’s ideas with the extremely popular concepts of Anton Makarenko.
Journal: Studia z Dziejów Rosji i Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej
- Issue Year: 52/2017
- Issue No: 3
- Page Range: 127-136
- Page Count: 10
- Language: English