Holocaust Memorial Day 27th January 2012
Learn about how the Polish hero Janus Korczak ran a democratic orphanage based on children’s rights.
How did the children create justice when they were surrounded by the poverty, death and brutality of the Warsaw Ghetto?
It is a hundred years since Korczak opened his orphanage.
It is 70 years since he and the children were killed at Treblinka.
Find out about this hero and how we can learn from what his children did.
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“the child has the right to a Children’s Court where he can judge and be judged by his peers.” Korczak
A circle meeting in which the children and staff democratically made decisions.
