As the director of an orphanage in the Warsaw Ghetto, he refused sanctuary and stayed with his orphans when they were sent to the Treblinka extermination camp. In the past seventy years, many of ...

In 2012, Poland celebrated the life and work of Henryk Goldszmit – better known by his pseudonym of Janusz Korczak. Remembered today primarily ... Thanks to his work with children at the orphanage, he ...

Janusz Korczak with children and the staff of the orphanage in Pruszków (1920s), photo: Wikimedia Commons Korczak’s depiction of Africans as uneducated cannibals remains offensive, and the exchange of ...

Korczak believed that the orphanage ought to be a safe haven ... The author of this article would like to thank the chairperson of the Polish Society of Janusz Korczak, Barbara Sochal and the director ...

Janusz Korczak as a child, ca ... In 1928 Nasz Dom relocated to the Bielany area, to a new building especially designed as an orphanage. Korczak worked at Nasz Dom through to 1935, when his ties with ...

Here’s the very best of Janusz Korczak’s unorthodox wisdom on children (and adults) – encapsulated in his own words. Children are not future human beings, they are already human beings. It is humanity ...