Janusz Korczak
Writer, Author
1878 – 1942
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Who was Janusz Korczak?
Janusz Korczak, the pen name of Henryk Goldszmit, was a Polish-Jewish educator, children's author, and pediatrician known as Pan Doktor or Stary Doktor. After spending many years working as director of an orphanage in Warsaw, he refused freedom and stayed with his orphans when the institution was sent from the Ghetto to the Treblinka extermination camp, during the Grossaktion Warsaw of 1942.
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- Born
- Jul 22, 1878
Warsaw - Also known as
- Henryk Goldszmit
- Stary Doktor
- Pan Doktor
- Mr. Doctor
- Old Doctor
- Parents
- Ethnicity
- Jewish people
- Poles
- Nationality
- Poland
- Profession
- Education
- Flying University
- University of Warsaw
Medicine
(1898 - 1904)
- Died
- Aug 6, 1942
Treblinka extermination camp
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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