Celebrating the 2012
International Year of Janusz Korczak, the Consulate General of the Republic of
Poland will hold a day-long seminar – Janusz
Korczak and Children's Rights in Contemporary Perspective on May 8,
9:30 am-5:00 pm. The program will
include: panel discussions - Part I: Janusz Korczak - a predecessor ofChildren's
Human Rights; Part II: Basic education and gender equality; Part III: Child
protection from violence, exploitation and abuse; a Q and A session; along with remarks by Consul
General Ewa Junczyk-Ziomecka and Ambassador Witold Sobków, Permanent Mission of
the Republic of Poland to the UN.
Janusz Korczak, the pen name of Henryk
Goldszmit was a Polish-Jewish educator, children's author, and pediatrician
known as Pan Doktor (Mr Doctor) or Stary Doktor (the Old Doctor). After
spending many years working as director of an orphanage in Warsaw, he refused
freedom and stayed with his orphans when the organization was sent from the
Ghetto to Treblinka extermination camp.
The event will be held at the Consulate General of Poland – 233 Madison Avenue, New
York, NY. RSVP by May 4: newyork.rsvp@msz.gov.pl; 646-237-2112 (or 2185).
