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Doctor Korczak (based on a real-life historical person) runs an orphans’ home in Warsaw. He is a bald, bearded man with a kind heart and a ready laugh. Misha smuggles food for Doctor Korczak’s orphans, and Doctor Korczak shows him fatherly kindness in turn. Even when the orphans are marched to the ghetto, Doctor Korczak leads them with cheerful songs.
Doctor Korczak Quotes in Milkweed
The Milkweed quotes below are all either spoken by Doctor Korczak or refer to Doctor Korczak. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 17
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Janina looked at me. “What happened?”
“Unlucky orphans,” I said. I told her that was what Enos called them—orphans who did not live in Doctor Korczak's home, or any other, and who roamed the streets hungry and begging and sick.
“Be glad we're not unlucky orphans,” I told her.
“Is gray Jon an unlucky orphan?” she said.
“Oh no,” I said. “He's a lucky one. He's with us.”
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Chapter 28
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Some people died from sickness, some from hunger. There wasn't much I could do about the sickness, but hunger, that was where I came in. Feeding my family—and as much as possible Doctor Korczak's orphans—was what the world had made me for. All the parts—the stealing, the speed, the size, the rash stupidity—came together to make me the perfect smuggler.
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Doctor Korczak Quotes in Milkweed
The Milkweed quotes below are all either spoken by Doctor Korczak or refer to Doctor Korczak. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 17
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Janina looked at me. “What happened?”
“Unlucky orphans,” I said. I told her that was what Enos called them—orphans who did not live in Doctor Korczak's home, or any other, and who roamed the streets hungry and begging and sick.
“Be glad we're not unlucky orphans,” I told her.
“Is gray Jon an unlucky orphan?” she said.
“Oh no,” I said. “He's a lucky one. He's with us.”
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Chapter 28
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Some people died from sickness, some from hunger. There wasn't much I could do about the sickness, but hunger, that was where I came in. Feeding my family—and as much as possible Doctor Korczak's orphans—was what the world had made me for. All the parts—the stealing, the speed, the size, the rash stupidity—came together to make me the perfect smuggler.
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