Metadata: Ida Merżan Papers
Collection
- Country:
- Poland
- Holding institution:
- The Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute
- Holding institution (official language):
- Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma
- Postal address:
- ul. Tłomackie 3/5, 00-090 Warszawa
- Phone number:
- +48 22 827 92 21
- Email:
- secretary@jhi.pl
- Reference number:
- PL 312/S/342
- Title:
- Ida Merżan Papers
- Title (official language):
- Spuścizna Idy Merżan
- Creator/accumulator:
- Merżan, Ida
- Date(s):
- 1907/1987
- Language:
- Polish
- Hebrew
- Russian
- Yiddish
- Extent:
- 46 units; 0.75 linear metre
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection includes: photocopies of Ida Merżan's personal documents (including diplomas, certificates); typescripts or photocopies of books and articles published by Ida Merżan; reviews of works by Ida Merżan; typescripts or photocopies of Janusz Korczak's texts (introductions to "Tydzień Bursy" (Dormitory’s week), scenes for holiday performances - "Cud świeczki chanukowej” (Miracle of a Hanukkah candle), "Szopka purymowa” (Purim show), "Stara i nowa świeczka chanukowa” (Old and new Hanukkah candle), "Menora”, "Modlitwa świeczki” (Prayer of a candle); articles on pedagogical subjects; "Dziecko żydowskie" (Jewish child)) and Stefania Wilczyńska (articles on pedagogical issues); articles about Janusz Korczak and Stefania Wilczyńska; articles on pedagogical topics by various authors. The articles listed above are usually in the form of cuttings from various newspapers ("FolksShtime", “Życie Warszawy", "Zwierciadło", "Kobieta I Życie"). The collection does not contain original documents.
- Archival history:
- Ida Merżan's papers were donated to the archives of the Jewish Historical Institute on 13 January 1988 by Irena Kowalska. The collection was re-structured in October 2003.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Ida Merżan (1907-1987) was an educator who worked at the Orphans Home. She was an activist of the Korczak movement and started working with children in 1927 at the Orphans' Home at Krochmalna Street 92 in Warsaw under the direction of Janusz Korczak. She spent the first years of the war in Kovel and then deep in the USSR. After the war, she continued her teaching work. She is the author of over a dozen books and numerous articles on pedagogy, the activities of Janusz Korczak and on her childhood in her native village of Skryhiczyn.
- Access points: locations:
- Poland
- Access points: persons/families:
- Korczak, Janusz
- Subject terms:
- Children
- Education
- Jewish holidays
- Finding aids:
- An index is available in the Jewish Historical Institute reading room.
- Yerusha Network member:
- The Taube Department of Jewish Studies of the University of Wrocław
- Author of the description:
- Monika Taras; The Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute; August 2018
