Confessions of a Butterfly: An Evening with Janusz Korczak – Greenside at George Street
There have been many plays written about the Holocaust, but these plays are essential in educating generations who can no longer discuss this subject with survivors who are the primary source of information and education. Like the character in the play, playwright, and performer Jonathan Salt works with children, and specialises in educating people about the Holocaust and Genocide.
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Salt takes on the role of Janusz Korczak, a Polish Jew living in Warsaw who was a writer, educator, and doctor. The play is based upon Korczak’s diaries entitled ‘The Ghetto Diaries,’ and is set in May 1942 when Warsaw was under siege by Hitler’s army, when the Jews were being gradually segregated. Korczak opened two orphanages, one managed by himself, and the play...