Janusz Korczak was a Polish pediatrician and educator who refused to leave the children of the Jewish orphanage where he was working when they were moved to the Warsaw ghetto. He was murdered in the Treblinka extermination camp. This sculpture to honour his memory is … Continue reading He Never Left Them
Janusz Korczak was a doctor, a children’s author, an educator and the head of an orphanage near Warsaw in Poland. When the children were moved to the extermination camp Treblinka by the German SS he and his assistant Stefania Wilczyńska refused to leave them and went with them to their certain death.
This monument to his courage and humanity was erected in Günzburg, it was created by Itzchak Belfer who used to live in the orphanage for a while when he was little.
I was nominated by Teresa and by Margaret to post one travel picture a day for ten days without explanation, then to nominate someone else to participate. That’s 10 days, 10 travel images, and 10 nominations.
The photos I am going to show in this challenged are from travels around Germany and where chosen to introduce my German language students to various German sites.
Here is my seventh one:
A day late and because of Christmas and some private tangle, no more nominations. I’ll publish the rest of my pics automatically and I promise to look at others after 26th, with a cup of tea or possibly some gluehwein.
The market place in Günzburg in Bavaria, looking more flashy than usual.
For Friendly Friday: Alternative Version.
This is Günzburg, just over 100 km to the south of Rothenburg where Nancy took her photograph. Click here to go to her A Photo A Week Challenge and find other photos featuring towns or cities.
corniculate
inversion
interstice
ciruitous
sabulous
Another five words for a Thursday Special and what I could find to illustrate them.
Go to Paula’s Lost in Translation blog for more photos fitting the five words.
To get away from clogged highways we stopped for lunch and a walk in the small town of Günzburg in northern Bavaria. The old centre of town is crisscrossed with little narrow streets and alleyways. It’s by necessity that one ends up arm in arm!
For more photos of roads, alleys, driveways, paths … go to Cee’s Which Way Photo Challenge.
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