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This year Poland celebrates the life and works of Henryk Goldszmit, better known by his pseudonym Janusz Korczak. He is remembered today primarily for his contributions to education as a great ...

The Polish government and the Holocaust Museum of Buenos Aires inaugurated a two-day seminar about Janusz Korczak. The event, which began Tuesday, is part of activities marking 70 years since German ...

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 ...

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 ...

Can one tell the life of a person using only images and his or her own words? This new album, published in commemoration of the Korczak Year, is such an attempt – yet surprisingly, it has quite a few ...

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In his 1922 novel ‘King Matt the First’, Janusz Korczak depicted a state reformed by a ten-year-old ruler, whose bold theories, however, failed in everyday practice. The book is both an anti-utopia ...

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. Though he was ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. This impactful play was written in 1957 by Sylvanus and was translated soon after ...

Seventy-Seven years ago this summer, on August 7, 1942, Dr. Janusz Korczak entered eternity. He died as he had lived, loving every child. Korczak (the pen-name of Henryk Goldzmit) was a Jewish-Polish ...