A “Janus Korczak Foundation” has been established in Holland to keep alive the memory of the Polish Jewish educator and his ideals.
Korczak, whose real name was Henryk Goldszmit, was born in 1878 and died in 1942 in the Nazi concentration camp to which he was deported from Warsaw along with 700 children of the Jewish Orphanage in Warsaw which he headed.
The Foundation intends to publish translations of his books into Dutch and promote an interest in his books on child welfare and education. Some of his books have already appeared in Dutch translation and the publication of another number of them is in preparation.
Meanwhile, another committee has been formed to erect a memorial at the site of the former concentration camp of Mauthausen in Austria for the Dutch victims of the Nazis who perished there during the years 1940-1945. They were mainly two groups of young Jews from Amsterdam, numbering about 400 each who were rounded up in February and June 1941. That was more than a year before the mass deportation of Jews started. All perished after only a few months. The committee refers to them as Dutchmen, not as Jews.
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