Srokowski, Jerzy

Henryk Goldszmit, known by his pen name as Janusz Korczak, was born July 22, 1878 or 1879 into a Polish-Jewish family. From 1898 - 1905 he studied medicine in Warsaw and began working as a pediatrician in 1905 at the Jewish Bersohns and Baumans Children's Hospital in Warsaw. Korczak also had a private practice where he received and treated poor patients free of charge. In 1912 he founded Dom Sierot - an orphanage for Jewish children - where he introduced an innovative childrearing philosophy based on recognizing the child as a human being of value and deserving respect. A children's assembly,