Korczak

Realizing a Civil Rights Dream:
Helping Children of Color to Thrive in the American Education Environment
Education for Excellence, Diversity, and Respect: Transformative 21^st Century
           Innovations Conference
August 22, 2018
Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, WA USA
Kenneth Bedell

“To reform the world means to reform education” –

Janusz Korczak is famous for his courageous response to the Nazis. In 1939 Germany invaded Poland. At the time Korczak operated an orphanage in Warsaw. The Germans ordered him to move his orphanage to the ghetto where the Polish Jews were forced to live. As well as the orphanage, Korczak took over responsibility for a hospital for dying and sick