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Publication of the “Ioman ORT 5772” (ORT Calendar 2011–2012)

September 24, 2011
Universidad ORT Uruguay the "Ioman ORT 5772" (ORT Calendar September 2011–October 2012), an annual publication produced by the General Directorate, the Department of Jewish Studies, and the Publications Department Coordination Office. This year’s feature article is dedicated to Dr. Janusz Korczak, as part of the commemoration of the 70th anniversary of his murder, along with the children of his orphanage in the Warsaw Ghetto, at the Nazi extermination camp in Treblinka, which took place in August 1942.

Dr. Korczak was a Polish-Jewish physician, educator, and writer, and the intellectual father of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.

The text was written by Prof. Nora Gaón, Director of the Spanish-Speaking Division at the Ghetto Fighters’ House Museum in Israel.