Discover the Best Books Written by Janusz Korczak
Janusz Korczak, the pen name of Henryk Goldszmit, was a Polish Jewish educator, children's author, and pedagogue known as Pan Doktor ("Mr. Doctor") or Stary Doktor ("Old Doctor"). After spending many years working as a principal of an orphanage in Warsaw, he refused sanctuary repeatedly. He stayed with his orphans when the entire institution population was sent from the Ghetto to the Treblinka extermination camp during the Grossaktion Warschau of 1942.
Janusz Korczak, the pen name of Henryk Goldszmit[ (22 July 1878 or 1879 – 7 August 1942), was a Polish Jewish educator, children's author, and pedagogue known as Pan Doktor ("Mr. Doctor") or Stary Doktor ("Old Doctor"). After spending many years working as a principal of an orphanage in Warsaw, he refused sanctuary repeatedly.
He stayed with his orphans when the entire institution population was sent from the Ghetto to the Treblinka extermination camp during the Grossaktion Warschau of 1942. Korczak's best-known writing is his fiction and pedagogy; his most popular works have been widely translated. His main pedagogical texts have been translated into English, but of his fiction, as of 2012, only two of his novels have been translated into English: King Matt the First and Kaytek the Wizard.