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The physician, author, and educator Janusz Korczak was born in Warsaw in 1878 under the name Henryk Goldszmit. He was murdered in Treblinka in 1942, together with his wards. Janusz Korczak grew up in a middle-class Jewish household but identified at an early age with Warsaw’s desperately impoverished. He fully dedicated his life to children and outcasts, to the abandoned and rejected. In the Warsaw orphanage "Dom Sierot" his ideas evolved into an educational program based on "respect." "Children do not become people – they already are." Janusz Korczak’s full literary and academic legacy is available for the first time in this comprehensive edition. The Complete Works make accessible the full literary range of this writer and educator. Readers will encounter Korczak’s broad oeuvre and versatility: he was a writer who became at once a satirist, humorist, journalist, poet, dramatist, and pamphleteer; a master of the "small form"; a writer of tractates and portraits; a pioneering social critic; and a radio producer. Janusz Korczak wrote for children and adults, including a total of 24 books and 1,000 newspaper articles, in addition to theater pieces and radio programs. For the first time, his Complete Works document the full scope of Korczak’s pedagogy of human rights.