Polish–Bolshevik war;³⁴⁵ now, as a civilian, I carefully read the assembly of
the “backstage”. If it were not for that, I would continue to resent and disdain
civilians.
Work areas:
1. Seven years, with intervals, as the sole house doctor at the hospital on
Śliska Street.³⁴⁶
2. More than a quarter of a century at the Orphans’ House.³⁴⁷
3. Fifteen years at Our House³⁴⁸ – Pruszków, Bielany fields.
4. About six months in shelters for Ukrainian children near Kiev.
5. I have served as the expert witness for children at the District Court.³⁴⁹
6. I was a correspondent for German and French periodicals for the Patients’
Fund for four years.
Wars:
1. Evacuation points in Kharbin and Taoy-jou.
2. A sanitary train (carrying venereal patients of the revolutionary army from
Kharbin to Khabarovsk).
3. Junior ward-head of Divisional Field Hospital.
4. Epidemic hospital in Łódź (dysentery epidemic).
5. Epidemic hospital at Kamionek.
As a citizen and employee, I am obedient, but not submissive.
345 In 1919–20 Korczak, called up to the Polish Army at the rank of Major, served as a military doctor in infectious diseases hospitals in Łódź and then in Warsaw, in the Kamionek district.
346 He worked in the Bersohns and Baumans Children’s Hospital from 1905 to 1912.
347 He became director of the Orphans’ Home on 7 October 1912. The official opening of the facility at Krochmalna Street 92 (today Jaktorowska Street 6) took place on 27 February 1913.
348 Our Home – a care and educational facility for workers’ children, modelled on the Orphans’ Home, established in 1919 in Pruszków at Cedrowa Street 12, later moved to Warsaw. On 30 May 1930, the grand opening of the Home took place in the new building in the Bielany district, under the patronage of Aleksandra Piłsudska. The head of Our House was Maria Falska (1877–1944), educator, social activist, member of the Polish Socialist Party (PPS), as well as one of the initiators of that institution, along with Janusz Korczak and Maria Podwysocka. Korczak was a long-time associate of that facility; he left it in 1935 as a result of a conflict.
349 In the 1930s, Korczak served as a court expert in cases of child abuse.
