Der Doktor bleibt!“: Janusz Korczak als literarische Figur

This paper analyses the literary representation of Janusz Korczak in children’s literature of the past 40 years. The characteristics of children’s literature as a truly multimedia means of remembrance play a role when both words and pictures commemorate the Shoah. The many stories about Janusz Korczak can also point us towards the transnational character of children’s literature. Through translation, these stories become part of multiple (national) literatures, so that we can actually speak of a world literature that is not only part of a national or bi-national memory, but of a global, cultural one.