Janusz Korczak's commitment to children was transcendent. It endured throughout his life and beyond his death.

Eighty-two years ago this summer one of the Warsaw Ghetto’s most celebrated residents, Dr. Janusz Korczak, entered eternity. He died as he had lived, loving every child.

DR. Janusz Korczak, physician, educator and writer, was born in Poland on July 22, 1879, and died tragically with the children of his orphanage at the hands of the Nazis on August 5, 1942, during t ...

Lee Potasinski knows how some Warsaw orphans felt when Nazi soldiers led them off to concentration camps during the Holocaust. When he sees photos of the children who were put to death in 1942, the… ...

Eighty-one years ago this summer one of the Warsaw Ghetto’s most celebrated resident’s, Dr. Janusz Korczak, entered eternity. He died as he had lived, loving every child.

Janusz Korczak reminds us that, in the care of children, courage can be every bit as important as understanding and compassion. Born in Warsaw in 1879, Korczak studied medicine and created an ...

1. Date of birth: 1878 or 1879? Janusz Korczak as a child, ca. 1888, book frontispiece from King Matt the First, the Nasz Dom/Our House building, Pola Bielańskie, photo courtesy of the Korczakianum ...