This article reconstructs the vision of World War II in the 1945–1946 issues of the children’s weekly Świerszczyk. The looks for answers to the following questions: How did the authors of the Świerszczyk texts build the narrative of the war that had just ended? In what way did they bring to the attention of their readers the victims of the war and the war heroes, and in what terms did they describe their victimhood and heroism respectively?

Marta Hirschprung (born in Cracow in 1903, died 1942?) was a journalist, translator, editor of the children’s magazine Okienko na Świat (A Little Window on the World) and author of countless articles for the press. This article is an attempt at finding out the forgotten facts from her life and reconstructing her biography. While analyzing her contributions to the Gazeta Żydowska (The Jewish Newspaper) in 1940–1942, special attention is paid to her editorial work on its children’s supplements Nasza Gazetka/Gazetka dla Dzieci i Młodzieży (Our Little Paper/The Little Paper for Children and the Young People, 1940–1941).