Dr. Janus Korczak
Dr. Janus Korczak was a writer, educator, founder of an original system of
education, and patron of children to whom he remained faithful to the end. Not
wanting to abandon the orphans entrusted to his care in the Warsaw ghetto
when they were condemned to death by the Nazis, Korczak refused a chance
to save himself. He was voluntarily deported, with the children of his
orphanage, on August 6, 1942 and died with them at Treblinka.
Photo credit: Meczenstwo Walka, Zaglada Zydów Polsce 1939-1945. Poland. No. 234.
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