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19930s/1940s: Students Misha and Sophia flee a Warsaw under Nazi occupation for a chance at freedom.
The Good Doctor of Warsaw
What you need to know before your trail
Deeply in love and about to marry, students Misha and Sophia flee a Warsaw under Nazi occupation for a chance at freedom. Forced to return to the Warsaw ghetto, they help Misha’s mentor, Dr Janusz Korczak, care for the two hundred children in his orphanage. As Korczak struggles to uphold the rights of even the smallest child in the face of unimaginable conditions, he becomes a beacon of hope for the thousands who live behind the walls.
As the noose tightens around the ghetto Misha and Sophia are torn from one another, forcing them to face their worst fears alone. They can only hope to find each other again one day…
Meanwhile, refusing to leave the children unprotected, Korczak must confront a terrible darkness.
Locations
Reset- Poland - Warsaw
- B: Warsaw Ghetto - museum
- C: Warsaw Ghetto wall
- D: A Footbridge Of Memory
Travel Guide
Warsaw
Half a million people lived in the Warsaw ghetto. Less than one percent survived to tell their story. This novel is based on the true accounts of Misha and Sophia, and on the life of one of Poland’s greatest men, Dr Janusz Korczak.
‘Even the air is different here, a persistent smell made up of rotting rubbish, unwashed clothes and sewage. Along each side of the street, thin and listless people in shabby clothes stand by little piles of redundant-looking items…hoping for a sale.Two haggard children bundled in rags come swaying towards Sophia on stick legs, each holding out a hand and chanting as if in a dream. An emaciated teenager with a rope around his frayed coat is stretched out on the flagstones, his sunken face as grey as putty, his eyes closed. Is he alive?’
BookTrail Boarding Pass: The Good Doctor of Warsaw
Destination: Warsaw, Poland Author/guide: Elisabeth Gifford Departure Time: 1930s/1940s
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