Word: janek
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...PLAYHOUSE (shown on Fridays). "A Mother for Janek." dramatizes the story of a boy orphaned during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and sent to the U.S. to live...
...hero is a boy of 14 who is led into a forest by his doctor father and left with a supply of potatoes in a dugout. His mother has been taken to one of the brothels set up by the Germans, and it is a long time before Janek knows that his father was killed when, alone, he attacked her keepers...
Like many a wartime child in whatever country, Janek becomes a man long before he stops being a boy. He learns about bravery and suffering before he can comprehend their motivation. His first and only love affair is with a girl not much older than he who is both a prostitute for the German troops and a spy for the partisans. He sees his comrades die while other Poles play the black-market game, digs for acorns in the snow when the last potato is gone. And all the time he remains in part a baffled child who avidly reads...
...Janek's hope, like the hope of many another innocent, is that Russia and the U.S., as victors, would "build a new world together." But already some know better. "You are such a child, Janek," says his child-mistress...