Janusz Korczak
Born: July 22, 1878, Warsaw, Poland
Murdered: August 7, 1942, Treblinka extermination camp
Janusz Korczak and his work as an educator and children's activist has inspired the K-School Accreditation.
This accreditation honors Korczak's belief that all children deserve to be taken seriously, respected, and treated with kindness.
Janusz Korczak's Declaration of Children's Rights has been used as the framework for this accreditation. To learn more about this declaration click here.
Janusz Korczak
The story of the physician, writer and educator Janusz Korczak and his educational legacy as expressed before and during the Holocaust.
Yad Vashem
Published on Jul 3, 2018