

Nowadays, many troubled children and teens with challenging behavior problems are being written off. Of course, Yad Vashem itself is a memorial of one of the darkest moments in history, the Holocaust, of which one-quarter of its civilian victims were children. Even in the Warsaw Ghetto, Janusz Korczak refused to abandoned “his” children, choosing to accompany them in the protest of quiet dignity to the gas chambers of Treblinka. Korczak founded an orphanage in Warsaw, Poland, for troubled Jewish street youth. Inspired by a famous statue of Janusz Korczak at the Children’s Memorial at Yad Vashem, the title No Disposable Kids came to the authors. Brendtro, Arlin Ness, and Martin Mitchell, No Disposable Kids.

Finding Value in Children and Youth Who Feel They Have No ValueĪ review and summary of: Larry K.
