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A Light in the Darkness: Janusz Korczak, His Orphans, and the Holocaust Audiobook, by Albert Marrin Play Audiobook Sample

A Light in the Darkness: Janusz Korczak, His Orphans, and the Holocaust Audiobook

A Light in the Darkness: Janusz Korczak, His Orphans, and the Holocaust Audiobook, by Albert Marrin Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Stefan Rudnicki Publisher: Listening Library Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 6.17 hours at 1.5x Speed 4.63 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: September 2019 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9780593105122

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

52

Longest Chapter Length:

34:58 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

10 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

10:34 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

6

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Publisher Description

From National Book Award Finalist Albert Marrin comes the moving story of Janusz Korczak, the heroic Polish Jewish doctor who devoted his life to children, perishing with them in the Holocaust. Janusz Korczak was more than a good doctor. He was a hero. The Dr. Spock of his day, he established orphanages run on his principle of honoring children and shared his ideas with the public in books and on the radio. He famously said that "children are not the people of tomorrow, but people today." Korczak was a man ahead of his time, whose work ultimately became the basis for the U.N. Declaration of the Rights of the Child. Korczak was also a Polish Jew on the eve of World War II. He turned down multiple opportunities for escape, standing by the children in his orphanage as they became confined to the Warsaw Ghetto. Dressing them in their Sabbath finest, he led their march to the trains and ultimately perished with his children in Treblinka. But this book is much more than a biography. In it, renowned nonfiction master Albert Marrin examines not just Janusz Korczak's life but his ideology of children: that children are valuable in and of themselves, as individuals. He contrasts this with Adolf Hitler's life and his ideology of children: that children are nothing more than tools of the state. And throughout, Marrin draws readers into the Warsaw Ghetto. What it was like. How it was run. How Jews within and Poles without responded. Who worked to save lives and who tried to enrich themselves on other people's suffering. And how one man came to represent the conscience and the soul of humanity. This is an unforgettable portrait of a man whose compassion in even the darkest hours reminds us what is possible.

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“Stefan Rudnicki’s narration is engaging and conversational, an approach needed for this complex account of the life of Janusz Korczak…The audiobook places Korczak’s life in its historical context, and Rudnicki moves smoothly as the story ranges from Korczak’s loving views on childhood to Hitler’s beliefs about and practices of racial superiority and extermination. Rudnicki approaches the author’s absorbing material with a combination of reserve that carries listeners through difficult descriptions and emotionalism that illuminates the story’s focus on courage and the powerful theme of good versus evil.”

— AudioFile

Awards

  • A Booklist Pick of the Week
  • Among shortlisted titles for YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults, 2020

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About Albert Marrin

Albert Marrin is the author of numerous nonfiction books for young readers, including Uprooted, a Sibert Honor Book, and the National Book Award finalist Flesh and Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy. His many honors include the Washington Post Childrens’ Book Guild Lifetime Achievement Award, the James Madison Book Award for Lifetime Achievement, and the 2008 National Endowment for the Humanities Medal.

About Stefan Rudnicki

Stefan Rudnicki first became involved with audiobooks in 1994. Now a Grammy-winning audiobook producer, he has worked on more than five thousand audiobooks as a narrator, writer, producer, or director. He has narrated more than nine hundred audiobooks. A recipient of multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards, he was presented the coveted Audie Award for solo narration in 2005, 2007, and 2014, and was named one of AudioFile’s Golden Voices in 2012.