Figure 1.--Here we see one of the younger boys who is acting in an amateur theatrical at the orphange. Notice the artificial lighting for the play. The boy plays a child who is dying of a serious illness. The point of the play is to get the children to face the reality of death without telling them what will probanly happen to them. By this time, Dr. Korczak knows what transport east means. The boy here , like most of the others, is wearing long stockings with short trousers.

Dr. Korczak accompanies his orphans and sets up an orphanage in the terribly crowded Wardaw Ghetto. There he cares for 200 homeless children. He does his best to create an air of normality. This of course is an impossibility, but Dr. Korczak does his best. He organizes plays and other activities the boys might have pursued in normal times. Dr. Korczak also implemented his experimental educational methods. He organized a way of life for his orohans. Part of it is a system of child self-government. This idealized system of justice provides a stark contrast to the the mosterous evil that surrounds them outside the orphanage. The Ghetto's mayor guarantees Dr. Korczak that the orphanas will be saved. Dr. Korczak manages to raise food and money from the well-to-do Jews in the orphanage.

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