The Year of Janusz Korczak was established in 2012, 70 years since his tragic death in the Nazi extermination camp at Treblinka, and 100 years after the opening of his first Orphanage. The idea was born in social movements, found support of the highest Polish authorities and the International Korczak Committee. The Commisioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe offered Poland the cooperation in promoting Korczak’s message all over Europe. Korczak is remembered today primarily for his contributions to education as a great authority in custodial pedagogy, a social activist and an accomplished author writing for children and adult readers. The present Ombudsman for Children called Korczak the first informal Ombudsman for Children. Janusz Korczak outlined the Declaration of Child’s Rights comprising a long list of rights, among them rights to respect, to love, and even the right to die prematurely; the rights to speak and to be listened, to be appreciated for what he/she is, the right to desire, to claim, to ask. The Korczak declaration was created long before such document was drawn up by the Geneva Convention.