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December 2020
KORCZAK DIGITAL REPOSITORY LAUNCHED!


Congratulations to the Janusz Korczak Association of Canada on the launch of Korczak Digital Repository, “the first openly-accessible online repository honoring the legacy of the esteemed Dr. Janusz Korczak.

The archive has been a work in progress since 2017 and it will continue to evolve over time, but as of October it is fully functional and ready to serve as a global hub for scholars and followers of Dr. Korczak. The archive will allow access to Dr. Korczak’s work in an unprecedented way, thereby bringing his incredible legacy to bear on the problems and challenges of the 21st century. The archive is a unique online resource, making accessible for the first time in a single collection a wide range of Janusz Korczak’s personal writings and documents, as well as the writings of others on the subject of his life, activities and creative output, that had previously been scattered in archives and collections around the world. The repository is bilingual – available in both English and Polish.
Dr. Janusz Korczak is universally respected as a doctor, activist and author, but above all a mentor and spokesman for children’s rights. His innovative educational system and way of raising children in the spirit of mutual respect, partnership and self-governance is to this very day an inspiration for many teachers, pedagogues, paediatricians, civic activists and those involved in championing children’s rights. Korczak’s vision of universal children’s rights is the foundation for the 1989 United Nations Convention on this subject. Dr. Korczak was for decades an orphanage director, where he put his pedagogical philosophy into practice. He died, as he lived, alongside his children, at the hands of the Nazis in the Treblinka concentration camp in 1942.........” (Jerry Nussbaum)

For more about this remarkable achievement that is truly a gift to humankind, please go to the website of the Janusz Korczak Association of Canada:
http://www.januszkorczak.ca

Congratulations and thank you very, very much to all the people and organisations who have given so much time, thought, energy to bring this Herculean project to reality, yet still only declare it “merely the beginning”. Your gift to all will continue to give!

Thank you very much to Jerry Nussbaum for your ongoing support, advice and encouragement in the establishment of the Janusz Korczak Association Australia.
With delight will promote this wonderful resource you and your wonderful team have created, throughout our country.