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The poem evokes the desperate attempt of Polish Jewish teacher and doctor Janusz Korczak to give heart to the Jewish children in his care, who were being driven from Korczak's orphanage in the Warsaw Ghetto to Treblinka concentration camp, in 1942.
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English translation of the title: On Janusz Korczak (Fragments)
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English translation of first line: Come children, come all together
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The first line is drawn from the opening of a famous ballad by Polish Romantic poet Adam Mickiewicz, 'Powrót Taty', (Daddy's Return). The language is archaic.
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