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Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, United States
Campaign Details
Janusz Korczak: The Man who Knew how to Love Children
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C106904 |
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Books
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Product Details
The Man Who Knew How to Love Children tells the story of young Itzchak Belfer, the author and artist, at a joyful and pleasant orphanage. It was a beautiful big four story building, and it had a great hall for performances and a black grand piano. There was no other house like it anywhere in the world. It was the children's empire. They had daily duties and chores, and yet enjoyed great freedom to decide and adjust the rules. Belfer is one of three living children from the famous Janusz Korczak orphanage in Warsaw, Poland. He allows us a rare glimpse into Korczak's innovative liberal methods of thinking and education, over a hundred years ago, by describing his daily life, the house arrangements, and the way conflicts were resolved. No doubt, Korczak's great personality and attitude during the most crucial eight years of Belfer's childhood had a powerful effect throughout his life, which radiates from his loving voice and all the colors of his description. During World War II, after the Nazis conquered Warsaw, Belfer escaped through the woods to Russia, and remains the only survivor of his family, who all perished in the Holocaust. Belfer realized his dream to leave Europe, establish a family and settle in Israel. Korczak, the legendary Polish pediatrician, author and educator, was murdered in 1942by the Nazis when he refused to save himself and abandon his Jewish students. He was not able to betray his entire doctrine and life work, and desert his students. Instead, he marched with them, walking tall, into the Treblinka incinerators. Korczak is known as one of the pioneers of current multiple pedagogical streams. He truly understood children, loved them and had a revolutionary approach toward children. Teachers all over the world have adopted his ideas and practice.
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