Janusz Korczak
Janusz Korczak, the pen name of Henryk Goldszmit (22 July 1878 or 1879 – 7 August 1942), was a Polish Jewish educator, children's author, and pedagogue known as Pan Doktor ("Mr. Doctor") or Stary Doktor ("Old Doctor"). After spending many years working as director 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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| Date of birth | 22 July 1878
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| Place of birth | Warsaw, Congress Poland, Russian Empire
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| Date of death | 1 August 1942
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| Age | 64 (age at death)
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| Place of death | Treblinka extermination camp, German-occupied Poland
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![Janusz Korczak - Tele Tydzień Magazine Pictorial [Poland] (14 July 2023)](http://img3.bdbphotos.com/images/130x130/f/y/fy6o53ns6miu3u6.jpg?skj2io4l)
![Janusz Korczak - Retro Magazine Pictorial [Poland] (July 2020)](http://img3.bdbphotos.com/images/130x130/o/m/omy7p7wmmnzqpzm.jpg?skj2io4l)
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