View of the Krochmalna Street orphanage.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 65014

Date: Circa 1935
Locale: Warsaw, Poland
Variant Locale: Warszawa
Varshava
Warschau
Photo Designation: LIFE BEFORE THE HOLOCAUST -- Poland -- Korczak/Krochmalna Street Orphanage
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Miedzynarodowe Stowarzyszenie im. Janusza Korczaka

Event History: The Children's Home [Dom Sierot] was a Jewish orphanage established by Janusz Korczak in Warsaw in 1912. It was located at 92 Krochmalna Street in a building designed by Korczak to facilitate the implementation of his progressive educational theories. The orphanage was funded by the Jewish Orphans' Aid Society and served children between the ages of seven and fourteen. These children attended Polish public schools and government-sponsored Jewish schools, known as "Sabbath" schools, while they lived at the Krochmalna Street home. In 1921 the orphanage opened a summer camp on the Rozyczka farm in Goclawek. Rozyczka operated through the summer of 1940. Korczak's chief assistant and collaborator at the Krochmalna Street orphanage was Stefa Wilczynska.
Keyword: CHILDREN'S HOMES
EXTERIORS
KORCZAK ORPHANAGE
VIEWS
Photo Source: Miedzynarodowe Stowarzyszenie im. Janusza Korczaka

Copyright: Public Domain
: Record last modified: 2002-01-17 00:00:00
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