Word: janusz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Pakulski snatched the 45-page document from Higher Education Minister Janusz Gorski, jumped up on the table and waved it over his head like a captured battle flag. The strikers then picked up their sleeping bags, guitars and posters and peacefully left the building they had occupied for 28 days. "We have won," declared Pakulski. "But it is also a success for the government...
...agencies and nations but with some American Jewish organizations, which were aroused too late. "We fell victim to our faith in mankind," recalls library Editorial Chairman Alexander Donat, "our belief that humanity had set limits to the degradation and persecution of one's fellow man." Ghetto Diary by Janusz Korczak (191 pages; $8.95) is the most disturbing of the library volumes. Of the hundreds of memorial stones at Treblinka, only one bears a name: Korczak, a physician, author and head of an orphanage, who, given a chance to escape, chose to accompany his little charges to the gas chambers...