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Janusz Korczak Monument in Warsaw at Świętokrzyski Park has been unveiled in 2006. It is dedicated to the memory of Janusz Korczak. It has been designed by Jan Bohdan Chmielewski and Zbigniew Mikielewicz . The initiative to build a monument to commemorate Korczak appeared just after the war.
Website. korczak .org .uk. Janusz Korczak, the pen name of Henryk Goldszmit [1] (22 July 1878 or 1879 – 7 August 1942), [2] was a Polish Jewish pediatrician, educator, children's author and pedagogue known as Pan Doktor ("Mr. Doctor") or Stary Doktor ("Old Doctor"). He was an early children's rights advocate, in 1919 drafting a children's ...
Janusz Korczak. Janusz Korczak was a well-known doctor and author who ran a Jewish orphanage in Warsaw from 1911 to 1942. Korczak and his staff stayed with their children even as German authorities deported them all to their deaths at Treblinka in August 1942. Janusz Korczak was the pen name of Henryk Goldszmit, a Polish Jewish doctor and author.
The monument shows a group of figures, Janusz Koraczak, surrounded by a group of children, his protégés, standing under a dead tree whose dry branches form a menorah - a seven-armed Jewish candlestick. The figures are made of bronze, a granite tree. The whole is on an artificial hill, covered with paving stones.
A monument to Janusz Korczak and the children from his orphanage, who were sent to Treblinka extermination camp when the institution (within the Jewish Ghetto) was liquidated. The monument is found inside the Jewish Cemetery.
About the museum. Korczakianum is a museum-research lab that collects, researches and makes publicly available all material documenting Janusz Korczak’s [born as Henryk Goldszmit, 1878-1942], writer, doctor, pedagogue and social activist] life’s legacy: as well as Polish and foreign reception of the person and his work.
Holocaust Memorial in Australia. One of the four surfaces of monument is dedicated to the memory of Jewish children who perished in Holocaust and shows deportation of Dr. Janusz Korczak and the children. Korczak and his children a model for a monument by Yaakov Epstein. On display at The Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel. Korczak with children.
