Polish government officials unveiled a memorial plaque in Warsaw in honor of Warsaw Ghetto hero Janusz Korczak. Sunday’s unveiling took place exactly 70 years after German soldiers sent Korczak and ...

This Yom Hashoah U’Gevurah (the full name of this day is, “Holocaust and Heroes Memorial Day”) we mark 81 years since the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. The theme of resistance does not just refer to armed ...

Polish-Jewish doctor and educator Janusz Korczak was famous throughout Europe as director of the Warsaw Ghetto orphanage and an advocate for children’s rights. Despite offers of sanctuary, he chose to ...

The Polish-Jewish humanitarian turned down sanctuary and perished in the Nazi camp with the more than 190 children from his Warsaw Ghetto orphanage. WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — A Polish court changed the ...

When the Jews of Warsaw were confined to a ghetto during World War II, a high-school principal, determined that future generations must know what evil the Nazis wrought, began keeping a diary. – “My ...

In a woeful time that revealed the worst the human species is capable of, Janusz Korczak – like Jan Karski, Hannah Senesh, Raoul Wallenberg, and others – refused to submit to a genocidal régime. Born ...

The devotion of Janusz Korczak (born Henryk Goldszmidt) to children during the Holocaust is legendary. After Hitler invaded Poland, Korczak expended superhuman effort to protect his orphanage in the ...

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 ...

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 the ...