Janusz Korczak monument - so it started - Word Wide Concept

My idea is to make a digital image of Korczak monument and thereafter use digitalized cutting... that will give possibilities of numerous copies at different sizes, in different materials and allow a world wide locations...

How it started? I got two images (see below) of monuments from my aunt Erika from New York and I liked them a lot! Especially the second one.

When I looked at Mandela monument, I saw suddenly Janusz Korczaks face... and that was my trigger and so it started!

My direct idea was to make a digital image of Korczak monument and thereafter use digitalized cutting... that will give possibilities of numerous copies at different sizes, in different materials and allow a world wide locations...

Yes, this picture below was the picture of choice and the main, biggest symbol of Janusz Korczak

I dislike many Korczaks monuments,  like this one below which I called "Korczak with an Ipad"

I started to think about the symbols in Janusz Korczaks life, symbols of his lifework, entire life, not just the ghetto time!

I forgot, but what do you think about following symbol, Korczak signatures? 

Should these Korczak signatures be on the planned Monument? 

This type of stones with the signatures of Janusz Korczak I did 15 years ago as a gift to the outstanding "Korczak-peoples"! One stone I gave to Betty J. Lifton, an American writer of The King of Children: The Life and Death of Janusz Korczak.

My very, very first drawings of the Korczak Monument while talking at the telephone...

Maybe one should skip number seven as a symbol? However, that's my first vision of the Korczak monument and I am not an artist.

My drawings. Of course clumsy, I know. For me, just the first vision... Half of the balloon, bird and paragraph symbol, cut out at the left edge edge. Maybe it should be a bird in the cage? Cage gives more symbolism as there is this true story of a goldfinch, Stas and a cop who released his bird and then talked with the Doctor (Korczak) on the rights for adults and children. The artist, should of course include windows and flowers... 

At the moment I feel like I had a bag filled with the photo of Korczak's face and all the symbols that I mentioned earlier. Symbols in the bag, they have several different sizes and different look. I know that the face of Korczak should take approx. 80% of the monument and the residual surface should be filled with symbols. 

The artist has to choose the symbols, determine the best match, symbol size and its location. In this way, symbols: windows, §§, Number 7, birds and kites, like falling leaves after a while flying around the face of Korczak should find their final place around it and form the monument. 


The symbols are of great importance. Not only to "revive" the face Korczak and the entire monument. They should be attracting and waking up the interest and curiosity of passing by peoples. Symbols are representing the life of Korczak and the most important elements that should be remembered for ever.

Korczaks symbols.  
Klick on each marked symbols below to obtain a full description

Windows as symbols, klick to open for the description why!

Windows, here at 92 Krochmalna. Okno jeden z symboli Korczaka

Birds! (klick to open)

Symbole Korczaka - Dzisiaj Ptaki Korczaka. Moze znacie jakies inne "ptaki powiazane z Januszem Korczakiem. Napiszcie! Dziekuje!

Canary bird

Number 7 (klick to open)

Children were at the Orphanage just for 7 years. My father called it 7 Good Years.  Korczak worked for 7 years at Bersons and Baumans Children's Hospital at 60 Sienna street. Menorah has 7 arms...

Jeszcze jeden symbol Korczakowski -" 7 ". Sądzę że nie wszyscy wiedzą co oznacza owa Siódemmka. 7 lat oznacza maksymalny okres czasu jaki dzieci mogły być w Domu Sierot i w Naszym Domu. Zazwyczaj od 7-14 roku życia. Takie Siedem dobrych lat, jak to określał mój Tata.

Praragraphs §§ - (klick to open)

very important symbol, see also Children Court and very first Children Rights declaration from 1923 signed by Korczak in Geneva.

§§ (paragrafy) Korczaka. Pierwsze paragrafy to te po raz pierwszy spisane prawa dziecka w Deklaracji Genewskiej z 1924. Dzisiejsze to z Domu Sierot i z Naszego Domu w Warszawie czyli KODEKS SĄDU KOLEŻEŃSKIEGO, 

Oczywiście jakiś tam § użyto gdy zesłali Króla Maciusia na wyspę bezludną. 

Może znacie inne "§§ powiązane z Januszem Korczakiem"? 

Flowers and greens (klick to open)

- at Rózyczka summer camp and always at Korczaks windows at Krochmalna 92 and at Sienna street in the Ghetto!

Symbol Janusza Korczaka - Kwiaty, Rośliny, Zieleń
Zaczynam mimowolnie pisać, choć tego wcale nie chciałem od fragmentów Pamiętnika z Getta. Może dlatego że jest tyle symboliki w słowach
...Podlałem kwiaty, biedne rośliny sierocińca, rośliny żydowskiego sierocińca. Ziemia spieczona odetchnęła.... Lecz kwiaty, Rośliny, Zieleń i Korczak to przecież nie tylko okres Getta gdzie uporczywie szukał zieleni dla dzieci. Kwiaty, Rośliny, Zieleń to też Różyczka i Ogród Saski albo samo projektowanie Domu Sierot.

Symbols of the child and happiness. 

Korczak was bringing happiness to the lives of children through his novels, his education and throughout his entire life life. 

"The future and happiness of mankind lies in a happy childhood" he wrote. Children balloons and kits are symbols for a child and happy childhood.

"My idea of playing with kites did not succeed...

Perhaps I shall succeed yet"
—sentences from a letter of Korczak's that reached Israel on the day when Word War II broke out (September 1st. 1939).

Korczak wrote 

Every child has the right to have a swing
And every girl has the right to have a doll
But if the times are very difficult,
Let the wind give them a kite....

Just as the sea gives a child a toy - a boat,
so the wind has to give him a kite

 I went to a primary school in Warszawa named after Janusz Korczak. It was school nr. 211 in the Warszawa down town. Here. the main entrance and the planned monument that is placed on the right of it.

Dr JANUSZ KORCZAK
taught
How to Love a Child
fought for 
The Child's Right to Respect

The school was named after Janusz Korczak at the ceremony on May 29th, 1962. Unveiling of a plaque on the building of the school (just on the left of the entrance) was done by Igor Newerly. The author of this plaque is my mom (Zofia Weóblewska) who used the book titles of best known Korczak books in the text of this memory plaque.

Korczak books references: 
How to Love a Child (Jak kochać dziecko, Warsaw 1919, 2nd edition 1920 as Jak kochać dzieci)
The Child's Right to Respect (Prawo dziecka do szacunku, Warsaw, 1929)

When in Helsinki, I met people from company Graphic concrete. I found out that using especially designed membranes one can transform the digital image to the concrete surface. The visual quality of surface is depending on the raster like in the conventional printing techniques used in newspapers.

When in Helsinki, I met people from company Graphic concrete. I found out that using especially designed membranes one can transform the digital image to the concrete surface. The visual quality of surface is depending on the raster like in the conventional printing techniques used in newspapers. Not just pictures but also other textures can be easily transferred. See above the Good Friends, portrait of the Albert Edelfelts sister and how portion of it looks at the school in city of Borgå in Finland.