Friday, January 23, 2015

Korczaks Różyczka buildings - Little Rose

Korczaks orphanage opened its summer camp Różyczka in 1921, which remained in operation until the summer of 1940. Children from several orphanages in Warszawa spent their time there.

Klasztorna (Convent) street - here running vertically and the Convent building 280 meters (approx. 300 yards) south from Klasztorna (street. See Convent building at top right and its towers long shadows. Rózyczka summer camp houses. are within marked area. Today this area is fully occupied by houses build in 60-ties and only the names of streets like Old Doctor St and King Matt I, are witnessing about former summer camp.





Houses in Rózyczka. Building no. 1 was there from the very beginning. It was a brick building with two huge halls suited to accommodate one hundred of children in each hall. Behind this building, there was a playground with climbing ladders for children. In 1925 a new, wooden pavilion, nr. 2, with a large glazed porch was build, perpendicular to the first building. In the new pavilion (2) there were two dormitories for 30 children each, plus a hundred children could sleep at the same porch. No. 3, was a smaller brick building with a veranda and five rooms. After "Rozyczka" (Little Rose) was connected to sewerage system in 1929 the house nr. 3 was rebuilt into the bath room and toilet. The rectangle of building was closed by the white building, no. 4 with a pump and water cistern at the top of the house and rooms for bursa students below. There was also a separate kitchen- and warehouse building in which former pupils of Korczak, now employed as teachers, lived.





Różyczka summer camp was in the area called Czaplowizna. Main buildings of Rozyczka summer camp were just to the right from the sign Czaplowizna. Closest buildings brick plant, are marked with letters Cg (Cg = Polish Cegielnia) on the map. My father worked there before WWII.