Register for email alerts and news feeds:
This journal | BMJ Group
rss
Archives of Disease in Childhood 2001;85:449; doi:10.1136/adc.85.6.449
Copyright © 2001 BMJ Publishing Group Ltd & Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.
Arch Dis Child 2001;85:449 ( December )

Stamps in paediatrics

Dr Henryk Goldszmit (Janusz Korczak) 1878-1942

The first 100% of the full text of this article appears below.

Figure Removed (Available Only in the Full Text)
The stamp, issued in Poland in 1992, depicts a statue marking the 50th anniversary of the murder of Dr Henryk Goldszmit in the Treblinka camp,1 along with the children from his orphanage and many thousands of other victims. Henryk (known throughout Europe under his pen name Janusz Korczak) holds a small child in his arms, and is followed by others, as described by those who witnessed their departure for the trains. The statue is in the Jewish Cemetery2 near the former Warsaw Ghetto, where he lived with the orphans. Henryk was a Polish-Jewish paediatrician,3 writer, broadcaster, and vigorous advocate for the rights of the child. His children's stories are known in 20 languages, but few of his writings, until recently, have been available in English.4 His ideas were important in the development of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.5

J GOLDSMITH
Wanganui, New Zealand


References

1. http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/resource/VR/TRE3S.htm
2. http://warsawghetto.epixtech.co.uk/Korczak.htm
3. http://korczak.com/
4. http://www.korczak.org.uk/
5. http://www.ibe.unesco.org/International/Publications/Thinkers/ThinkersPdf/korczake.pdf Johng@ghw.co.nz

© 2001 by Archives of Disease in Childhood
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati    What's this?

This Article

Services
Citing Articles
Google Scholar
PubMed
Bookmark with

Register for free content

The full back archive is now available for all BMJ Journals. Institutional subscribers may access the entire archive as part of their subscription. Personal subscribers will also have access to all content when logged in. Non-subscribers who register have free access to all articles published before 2006 right back to volume 1 issue 1. Register here to access the free archive of all BMJ Journals.

Don't forget to sign up for content alerts so you keep up to date with all the articles as they are published.

Latest from ADC

 

ADC is co-owned by the RCPCH and is the official journal of the European Academy of Paediatrics

BMJ Careers - Latest Paediatrics and Paediatric Surgery Jobs

Paediatrics and Paediatric Surgery Jobs

Show me all >>