Korczak, director of the Jewish orphanage in Warsaw and a Jew himself, was forced to move to the ghetto with all the orphans living in the home in 1940 following the occupation of Poland by the Nazis.

Yet when the Warsaw ghetto opened, Korczak had no choice but to move his orphanage there. A famous man, he could have fled to safety, but he refused to abandon his children. At their new location ...

Yet when the Warsaw ghetto opened, Korczak had no choice but to move his orphanage there. A famous man, he could have fled to safety, but he refused to abandon his children. At their new location ...

Then the Nazis came. Germany invaded Poland on Sept. 1, 1939. Shortly after, Korczak and his chief assistant, Stefania Wilczynska, relocated the orphanage to inside the walls of the Warsaw ghetto.

The plot of “Korczak’s Children” is relatively simple: There are approximately 171 children in an orphanage in the Warsaw ghetto in the midst of World War II. Dr. Korczak runs the orphanage and loves ...

Korczak left a prosperous practice as Warsaw's only pediatrician to establish an orphanage for Jewish children in 1911. He named the institution The Children's Republic.

WATERLOO – During the Nazi occupation of Poland in World War II, Dr. Janusz Korczak does everything in his power to keep the 200 Jewish children in his Warsaw orphanage alive in the Jewish Ghetto.

In writing about the Unicorn children’s theatre on this blog yesterday, I omitted to mention (because I’ve not seen it) David Greig ‘s play, Dr Korczak’s Example, which is about a heroic paediatrician ...

Philip Rham shows us a complex man, determined to retain civilised standards in his orphanage in the Warsaw ghetto.His discipline, based on love, couldn’t be more different to that of the Nazis. New ...

Janusz Korczak, the pseudonym of Henryk Goldszmit, was a doctor, teacher, writer and humanitarian. During the Holocaust he ran an orphanage for Jewish children in the Warsaw Ghetto.

The municipal orphanage of the city of Wroclaw, Poland, was today named for Dr. Yanusz Korczak, the Jewish physician who looked after the children in the Warsaw ghetto during the Second World War ...