Korczak

In the annals of Holocaust lore, the name of Janusz Korczak, glorified in Andrzej Wajda's KORCZAK, has become legend. A pediatrician, he was also a recognized author whose most inspired works were for children. He founded an orphanage in Warsaw, Poland, which was a model for such institutions, since it was conducted as a true children's society, governed by the children themselves, and based on principles of justice, fraternity and equality.

When, in 1940, the Nazis create the Jewish ghetto (an area meant for 50,000 people, into which as many as 450,000 Jews were enclosed) Korczak (Wojtek Pszoniak) must transfer his orphanage to an old school building, totally ...