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...created a kind of crypto-autobiography, because he keeps reverting to the elements that have established patterns in his life: psychoanalysis, art, children (he has specialized in treating autistic children at the University of Chicago) and the Holocaust. Several of those patterns combine in his moving account of Janusz Korczak, who headed the Jewish orphanage in Warsaw, where a children's court enforced the children's rules. Despite friends' efforts to rescue him, Korczak insisted on staying with his children even as he walked hand in hand with them onto the train to Treblinka...
...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. The Holocaust...
...other hand, John Zink, Korczak Ziolkowski, Clint Wescott, and Jim West (to name a few) are truly eccentric. Surely none of these men are trying to convince anyone else of the advantages of their own particular ways of life. They are simply "people who consistently follow their own seemingly exotic standards" and are clearly not bidding for attention. Consideration must be given to the motives and methods of the individual in relation to existing social standards and how he wishes to affect them. If he wishes to affect them at all, he is not merely eccentric, but is in fact...
...other hand, Sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski needs whatever income he can collect from cattle breeding and tourists to pursue his passion: personally blasting a larger-than-Rushmore likeness of Chief Crazy Horse out of a South Dakota mountain. A fortune from manufacturing has liberated Oklahoma's John Zink, a Hemingwayesque character who thrives in feudal splendor on a 10,000-acre ranch near Tulsa. Zink used to greet guests by firing a revolver into the beams of his baronial office, but stopped doing so when a ricochet almost hit his secretary. One night, when a Supreme Court Justice came...
...Ziolkowski became a center of controversy. At the Gold Pan Tavern and Flyspeck Billy's along Custer's main street, just four miles from Crazy Horse, sentiment ran high. More than half the town was behind Ziolkowski. but some of the people thought that Crazy Korczak would be a better name for the venture. Financing the work with his own money, contributions and tourist admissions, Ziolkowski has not got on as fast as some of his boosters would like. They persuaded him to seek a federal loan, but when his critics objected that public funds should...