Janusz Korczak unidirectional

Korczak - ONE WAY

Once I read about the two-way traffic on the road, it's pure folly. Cars moving at a speed of over 100 km per hour in opposite directions, rushing just a few meters, sometimes centimeters away from each other ... That might lead to the collision at 200 km/h!

The orphanage at Krochmalna had a force one-way traffic at many places. Even the building itself was constructed so as to avoid a collision between running children.

In the bedrooms and may be in the most important place at the Orphanage, in the dining room there was a one-way traffic. The large dining room served for the hundreds of children and teachers. Children who are on duty, were serving the food on trays from the kitchen. Always going between the rows of tables. Exiting with empty plates was always along the walls, Never returning through the dining room in order to avoid "collisions"! The system with the "one way" never caused any problems to the children, they understood it and accepted it. However, grownups, like ne teachers had to be trainde to it. Ida Merzan, one of the students working at Dom Sierot, got the traffic lesson by Korczak.

Entrance to the orphanage had the two separate doors. Entrance and exit. Handles on different sides! One-way, collision-free passage here as well.


Another is a one-way traffic in the ghetto.

Janusz Korczak describes that at the main House of Refuge in the Warsaw Ghetto (39 Dzielna str.) there is a one-way traffic: the majority of children do not survive even a month there. Just accepted to the House - but dies almost directly. Children that are still alive are underweight: five year old child from House at Dzielna street, weighs as much as one year old.

The Main House of Refuge in the Warsaw Ghetto, 39 Dzielna str.