Righteous Among the Nations - and much more Polish author Janusz
Korczak is best remembered for accompanying 200 orphans to the
gas chambers, but scholars insist that there is more to his
legacy than the Holocaust. Agnieszka Witkowska motions toward
the orphanage's large hall, smiles and says: "Here is where 200
children used to eat." Witkowska is the deputy director of the
Korczakianum Center for Documentation and Research in Warsaw,
which is dedicated to commemorating Janusz Korczak. Her office
is on the first floor of the orphanage at 92 Krochmalna Street,
where Korczak's famous orphanage operated prior to its transfer
into the ghetto. Resting on a shelf in her office is a Hebrew-
language copy of Kaytek the Wizard, published by Am Oved, one of
my favorite childhood books. In 1912, Korczak and his partner
Stefania Wilczynska founded the orphanage in Warsaw. Next week
will mark 70 years since Korczak and Wilczynska's famous march
at the head of 200 schoolchildren from the Warsaw Ghetto to the
train that led