Janusz Korczak
Janusz Korczak, the pen name of Henryk Goldszmit, was a Polish Jewish educator, children's author and pedagogue known as Pan Doktor or Stary Doktor. After spending many years working as a principal of an orphanage in Warsaw, he refused sanctuary repeatedly and stayed with his orphans when the entire population of the institution was sent from the Ghetto to the Treblinka extermination camp by the Nazis, during the Grossaktion Warschau of 1942.
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Full Name
Henryk Goldsmith
Date of Birth
July 22nd, 1878
Age
147
Birth Place
Poland, Masovian Voivodeship
Date of Death
August 7th, 1942
Died Aged
64
Star Sign
Cancer
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