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Death to Win Freedom: A Poetic Connection with Janusz Korczak

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O ne can find vivid descriptions of the Nazi ethnic cleansing programme written in different parts of Europe. Those who survived the holocaust and those who could not penned down their horrific experiences in diaries, notes, memoirs etc. All talked about their ill fate, all expressed their desire to move to a free world, all wanted an end to the destruction. The German Führer Adolf Hitler gifted his enemies, mostly Jews, a massive violation of human rights. A part of the human civilization remained under the question: did they have right to live like humans? Among the victims there were millions of men, women and of course children. The famous diary entries of the little girl Anna Frank (1929−1945) who lived in the Netherlands during the World War II let us know how she faced the days of relentless cruelty. She wrote in her diary on 7 March 1944: “I’ve found that there is always some beauty left in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you. Look at these thin