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 ...

Janusz Korczak, a Polish-Jewish pediatrician and writer, established a home for orphans in 1912 and cared for Jewish children throughout both world wars. Much more than a biography, Marrin’s ...

This Yom Hashoah we mark eighty years since the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. The theme of resistance is not just referring to armed resistance, but also to spiritual resistance. Eighty-one years ago this ...

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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 ...

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 ...

If you've never heard of Janusz Korczak before, you are not alone. He is often called the "father of children's rights". There is a movement afoot to get Janusz Korczak better known, especially his ...

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 ...

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 ...