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Janusz Korczak (1878-1942), writer, doctor, reformer educator, great humanist of the past century. In our country, children read his story “King Matiusz First.” Less well known in Russia is his unique experience of raising orphans, pedagogical ideas outlined in the books “How to love a child” and “The right of the child to respect.” A Polish Jew, Korczak became a pride and hero of two peoples, two cultures. In Nazi-occupied Warsaw, he saved the lives of orphans at the cost of incredible efforts, and in August 1942, rejecting the offer to escape from the ghetto and save his life, he stayed with two hundred of his pupils and with them died in Treblinka. Betty Jean Lifton’s book, recognized as the best biography of Janusz Korczak, is published for the first time in Russian language.
