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  Janusz Korczak
Janusz Korczak (1878-1942) was a Polish-Jewish pediatrician, children’s author and child pedagogist.
Korczak was born Henryk Goldszmit in July 22 1878 in Warsaw.
Janusz Korczak was marching, his head bent forward, holding the hand of a child, without a hat, a leather belt around his waist, and wearing high boots.
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 libed.org.uk - Libertarian Education - Articles - Janusz Korczak - An Introduction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Janusz Korczak was born as Henryk Goldszmit in 1878 in a rather well-to-do, assimilated Jewish family in Warsaw, Poland.
Korczak organised meetings on several subjects like swimming in the river and a mess in the toilet, and he concluded, "The children's assistance is absolutely essential to the teacher, the prerequisite being, however, constant, vigilant control and a duty roster" (p.
Korczak was determined to create a completely new educative environment for the children – or rather one should say, with the children, for later, looking back, he wrote: "The child became the patron, the worker and the head of the home" (Korczak, 1967: 385).
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 Who was Janusz Korczak
It was Janusz Korczak who introduced progressive orphanages designed as just communities into Poland, founded the first national children's newspaper, trained teachers in what we now call moral education, and worked in juvenile courts defending children's rights.
Korczak's children did not romp with their nannies on the manicured lawns of Kensington Gardens but languished in the dark slums of Warsaw.
Korczak felt that within each child there burned a moral spark that could vanquish the darkness at the core of human nature.
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 Janusz Korczak
Janusz Korczak was born Henryk Goldsmit in Warsaw on July 22, 1878.
In 1934 and 1936, Korczak visited Palestine and was influenced by the kibbutz movement.
Korczak received many offers to be smuggled out of the ghetto, but he refused because he did not want to abandon the children.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/Korczak.html   (344 words)

  
 Who was Janusz Korczak? - Janusz Korczak - Biography
Janusz Korczak once wrote, and it was true of his.
Korczak´s children did not romp with their nannies on the manicured lawns of Kensington Gardens butlanguished in the dark slums ofWarsaw.
These are the two Janusz Korczaks-the young utopian King Matt who dreamed of making a better world for children, and the skeptical Old Doctor who knew that one always falls short of attaining the dream.
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 YoungMinds | Magazine | Pole apart - the life and work of Janusz Korczak
Dr Janusz Korczak (1879-1942) was a man who took his convictions and sense of responsibility so strongly that he was prepared to go to his death rather than betray them.
Korczak, who had brought up thousands of Jewish and Polish children, refused to desert them so that even as they died, the children would be able to maintain their trust in him and some faith in human goodness.
Korczak's basic philosophy was a belief in the innate goodness of children and their natural tendency to improve, given opportunity and guidance.
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 Chronological Photographs of Janusz Korczak   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Janusz Korczak with children and with philantropist Izaak Eliasberg, 19??.
Korczak with children and one of the teachers "Wowa" under the chestnut tree.
Korczak and his children passed along this railroad on the way to Treblinka extermination camp the 5th of August 1942.
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 Janusz Korczak
The legendary Janusz Korczak (1878-1942) was born Henryk Goldszmit into a well-off, assimilated Polish-Jewish family in Warsaw.
In the 1930s Korczak (who continued to sign his medical articles with his real name) promoted his innovative pedagogical ideas on his own popular radio program and sponsored a magazine put together entirely by children.
When the children were next in line for deportation to the death camp in Treblinka, Korczak refused opportunities to save himself and joined his children in a dignified march to the cattle cars.
www.polishculture-nyc.org /korczak_more.htm   (474 words)

  
 RedOrbit - Health - Re-Reading Martin Buber and Janusz Korczak: Fresh Impulses Toward a Relational Approach to ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Janusz Korczak was born Warsaw, Poland in 1878, the child of an assimilated Jewish family.
Korczak was given the chance to save his own life and go abroad, but he refused to do so in order to remain with the children and share their fate.
Korczak gave the children he looked after a great deal of self-confidence and a feeling of their own value; the religious educator must focus on this very point.
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 He Stayed With His Children
Janusz Korczak was born Henryk Goldszmit, on July 22, 1878.
Janusz chose to lead another way of life and put his heart into the plight of the poor and orphaned children in Warsaw's quarters.
Janusz was always fighting for a better community and education for the children.
www.iearn.org /hgp/aeti/aeti-1997/janusz-korczak.html   (256 words)

  
 Janusz Korczak - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Janusz Korczak, real name Henryk Goldszmit (July 22, 1878 or 1879 – August, 1942) was a Polish-Jewish children's author, pediatrician, and child pedagogist, known as Old Doctor (Stary Doktor).
Korczak was born in Warsaw in an assimilated Jewish family.
In 1898 he used Janusz Korczak as a writing pseudonym in Ignacy Paderewski's literary contest.
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 Amazon.com: Ghetto Diary: Books: Janusz Korczak   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Janusz Korczak (1879–1942) is one of the legendary figures to emerge from the Holocaust.
Korczak was the director of a big orphanage in Warsaw and he was very well know throughout the world for his writings in education.
Janusz Korczak was a radical educator and early advocate of the rights of children.
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 Janusz Korczak's Biography by Jane Pejsa
Janusz Korczak, ever the protective father to his many children, was not blind to these developments.
Korczak for himself a Polish military uniform, then took to the streets to beg food and monev for his charges.
Janusz Korczak would not leave his children, for he alone was their protector.
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 Janusz Korczak Info - Bored Net - Boredom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Korczak was born Henryk Goldszmit on July 22, 1878 in Warsaw Poland.
1898 –; 1904 Korczak studied medicine in Warsaw and also wrote for newspapeps.
Some time after, there were rumors that the trains had been diverted and that Korczak and the children had survived.
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 Amazon.com: King Matt the First: Books: Janusz Korczak,Esmé Raji Codell,Richard Lourie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Janusz Korczak was a Polish physician and educator who wrote over twenty books--his fiction was in his time as well known as Peter Pan, and his nonfiction works bore passionate messages of child advocacy.
Janusz Korczak was born in 1878 and died in 1942.
Korczak succeeds again to describe our world in the eyes of a child; the games of power, envy, the lack of sensibility, the contempt to important things, and, most important, the beauty of life.
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 The Janusz Korczak International Newsletter N° 20 (November 2006)
According to the Statute of the Association I summon the Annual Meeting for the Board of the International Janusz Korczak Association, to be held upon November the 25th, 2006 in Slubice.
Korczak will be the guest of honor of this young popular festival which marks in its area a strong citizen engagement for the defense and the promotion of the rights of the child.
The universalism of Korczak's message and the effect of his teachings on modern thinking are examined in case studies highlighting the treatment of children today.
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 Amazon.ca: A Voice for the Child: The Inspirational Words of Janusz Korczak: Books: Sandra Josephs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Janusz Korczak brings a humane, compassionate voice to help us honor children as independent beings worthy of utmost respect.
Janusz Korczak (1878-1942) was a Polish-Jewish doctor, playwright and pedagogue, who was deeply involved with the education of orphans in Warsaw, Poland.
Korczak truly was 'The Champion of the Child'' (p.
www.amazon.ca /Voice-Child-Inspirational-Janusz-Korczak/dp/0722538065   (536 words)

  
 Stone in honor of Janusz Korczak in Symbolic cemetery at Treblinka   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The photo above shows a stone in the symbolic cemetery at Treblinka which was placed there in honor of Janusz Korczak, the only person to have his name on a stone.
Korczak was a pseudonym for Dr. Henryk Goldzmit.
According to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Korczak marched along with his 192 orphans to the Umschlagplatz in Warsaw when the Jews were ordered to report for deportation to the East.
www.scrapbookpages.com /Poland/Treblinka/Treblinka06.html   (276 words)

  
 Amazon.fr : King Matt the First: Livres en anglais: Janusz Korczak,Richard Lourie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Like her, he died in the Holocaust and left behind a diary; unlike her, he had a chance to escape that fate—a chance he chose not to take.
Korczak was forced to gather together the two hundred children in his care.
It was Janusz Korczak who introduced progressive orphanages into Poland, founded the first national children’s newspaper, trained teachers in what we now call moral education, and worked in juvenile courts defending children’s rights.
www.amazon.fr /King-Matt-First-Janusz-Korczak/dp/0374341397   (535 words)

  
 'A Voice for the Child' - The Inspirational Words of Janusz Korczak   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
offers an unprecendented treasure of the personal Insights and rich wisdom of Janusz Korczak, one of the world's greatest Authorities on children.
During his lifetime he was both renowned and loved As a doctor, writer, teacher/educator, broadcaster, philosopher and fighter for the rights of the child.
THE INSPIRATIONAL WORDS OF "For the world today, Janusz Korczak is a symbol of true religion and true morality."
www.korczak.org.uk   (129 words)

  
 Janusz Korczak Bibliography - Simon Wiesenthal Center Multimedia Learning Center
Adapted by Edith and Sidney Sulkin from the Polish tale of Janusz Korczak.
The King of Children: A Biography of Janusz Korczak.
Veerman, Philip E.: "In the shadow of Janusz Korczak: The story of Stefania Wilczynska." The Melton Journal (Spring, 1990): 8, 15.
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 Janusz Korczak
Founded in 1971 by Michal Wroblewski, a former co-worker of Korczak's in Poland, the Association was formally registered in 1988 and throughout its existence it has maintained an affiliation with the Stockholm Teacher's College.
The website has as its purpose the dissemination of information on Janusz Korczak and his lifework.
Site provides a short introduction, a timeline, and a full biography of the Henryk Goldszmit., M.D. who was a well known literary and humanitarian figure using the name Janusz Korczak.
info-poland.buffalo.edu /web/history/hist_persons/korczak/link.shtml   (155 words)

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