The champion of children the story of Janusz Korczak
In 1912, a well-known doctor and writer named Janusz Korczak designed an extraordinary orphanage for Jewish children in Warsaw, Poland. Believing that children were capable of governing themselves, he encouraged the orphans to elect a parliament, run a court, and put out their own weekly newspaper....
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New York :
Farrar Straus Giroux,
2009.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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