Janusz Korczak. O Gazetce Szkolnej [“On the School Newspaper.”]

Janusz Korczak (1878-1942, born Henrky Goldszmit) was a pediatrician, pedagogue and author of children’s books. During the Holocaust, he refused sanctuary multiple times in order to stay with the children of his orphanage, along with whom he was ultimately murdered in Treblinka. In 1911, Korczak founded the Dom Sierot orphanage in Warsaw. As part of his teaching and guidance, Korczak helped the children write their own newspaper, Maly Przeglad (“The Little Review”) which eventually appeared as a supplement to the Nasz Przeglad, a popular Polish-Jewish newspaper at the time. This newspaper venture embodied Korczak’s educational philosophy, in that he viewed children not as human beings in potentia, but as human beings with the same rights as the adults who raise them.