The paper discusses the educational work of Janusz Korczak (1878–1942), an outstanding educator, doctor, writer and defender of children’s rights; the author of an innovative system of care and education in the spirit of humanist pedagogy. Janusz Korczak has constantly been present in the successive generations not only because of his heroic death (he died in a Nazi extermination camp in Treblinka, together with 200 children from an orphanage) but, above all, because of his extraordinary concern for abandoned Jewish and Polish children. Researchers of Korczak’s legacy continue to take the keenest interest in „Mały Przegląd” [Little Review]. This was the first magazine in Poland (perhaps in the world too) created by children and for children, a genuine „children’s tribune”. It was established to defend the interests and rights of young readers, to ensure justice in all domains. „Little Review” was a center of cultural life. The publishing activity had an enormous impact on the development of the personalities of children and youth, supporting their self-upbringing and selfeducation. The little magazine was a school of life and co-existence, and it encouraged children’s activity.
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