Jean Liffton wrote:
...At the Children’s Hospital that September, Korczak found his old despair waiting for him. What was he doing there? What good was it to cure sick children when they only returned to their
unhealthy surroundings? When a colleague, Izaak Eliasberg, a highly respected diagnostician in
dermatitis and venereal disease, told him about the Orphans Aid Society, to which he and his wife,
Stella, belonged, Korczak listened carefully. The Society was holding a fund-raising party for a shelter
it supported (Franciszkańska street 2-4). They could draw some wealthy philanthropists if he were able to come.
Korczak accepted, little knowing how fortuitous the occasion would be. He was to meet Stefania
(Stefa) Wilczyńska, a woman who would not only share his dream of creating an ideal haven for poor
children, but would help make it possible.
