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4 unusual facts about Janusz Korczak


Adam Silverman

His works include the opera Korczak's Orphans (to a libretto by Susan Gubernat, based on the life of Holocaust martyr from Poland Janusz Korczak), chamber and orchestral music, and music for the theater.

Borzęciczki

The school was named after Janusz Korczak, and in 2002 decorated with his monumental sculpture, moved from the Okopowa Street Jewish Cemetery cenotaph after being replaced with a bronze cast.

Declaration of the Rights of the Child

The original document, in the archives of the city of Geneva, carries the signatures of various international delegates, including Jebb, Janusz Korczak, and Gustave Ador, a former President of the Swiss Confederation.

Freya Wilson

In August 2011, Wilson joined Youth Music Theatre: UK as a member of the Korczak company, as they perform a musical based on the life of Janusz Korczak at the Rose Theatre, Kingston.


Democratic education

In 1912 Janusz Korczak founded Dom Sierot, the Jewish orphanage in Warsaw, which was run on democratic lines until 1940, when he accompanied all his charges to the gas-chambers of the Treblinka extermination camp.


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Malka Drucker

Eliezer Ben Yehuda: Father of Modern Hebrew won the ADL (Anti-Defamation League) Janusz Korczak Literary Competition and her biography of Frida Kahlo was chosen as an American Booksellers Association "Pick of the Lists."