WHEN Bradford’s first Polish school opened in 1948 it was the very first of its kind in the UK - founded to nurture Polish identity and patriotism in the aftermath of the Second World War.

Running from May 14-16 at the Koffler Centre of the Arts, the play—written by award-winning Canadian playwright Hannah Moscovitch—tells the story of Dr. Janusz Korczak, a Jewish-Polish ...

Shmuel Gogol, who was given his harmonica by Janusz Korczak when he was living in the Warsaw Jewish orphanage, survived by playing it in the orchestra. Korczak was murdered in Treblinka, as were ...

Children were among the most tragic victims in the Holocaust. Children were among the most tragic victims in the Holocaust. Professor Michael Berenbaum of American Jewish University speaks zof ...

Post-war history is presented from the perspective of twelve guides, who give the history a personal touch. Through reading the cartoon stories of Stories and Sketches, following the footsteps of ...

Among them is Janusz Korczak, remembered as the Warsaw Ghetto orphanage director who refused to abandon his Jewish charges when they were deported to Treblinka.

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 ...

Jonathan Salt’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe play, Confessions of a Butterfly: An Evening with Janusz Korczak, is a deeply moving and important work about a man who refused to abandon the children ...

Salt himself will embody the role of Janusz Korczak in this one-man show, performing for Year 9, Year 12, and the public on Wednesday 10th July 7pm followed by Q&A at 8.30pm.

Korczak, the pen name of Henryk Goldszmit, was born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1878. He was a Polish Jew who became a pediatrician, educator, children’s author and advocate for children’s rights.

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.