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Author photo. US Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Miedzynarodowe Stowarzyszenie (ca. 1930)

US Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Miedzynarodowe Stowarzyszenie (ca. 1930)

Janusz Korczak (1878–1942)

Author of King Matt the First

Includes the names: Jansz Korczak, Janus Korczak, Janusz Korczak, Janusz Korczak, Janusz Korczak, Korczak Janusz, Януш Корчак, ינוש קורצ'ק, פסויד. יאנוש קורצ'אק, Bruno (Introduction) Janusz; Bettelheim Korczak ... (see complete list), Sozialpaedagoge Kinderarzt Korczak, Polen Janusz

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Korczak, Janusz
Legal name
Гольдшмит, Эрш Хенрик
Goldszmidt, Henryk
Other names
Януш Корчак
Pan Doktor
Date of birth
1878-07-22
Date of death
1942-08
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Gender
male
Nationality
Poland
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Birthplace
Warsaw, Poland
Place of death
Treblinka extermination camp
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Education
University of Warsaw
Occupations
children's book author
educator
orphanage director
pediatrician
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Friedenspreis des deutschen Buchhandels (1972)
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Janusz Korczak was the pen name of writer, physician, and educator Henryk Goldszmidt (or Goldsmit). In 1934 and 1936, he visited Palestine and was influenced by the kibbutz movement. He established and was director of a Jewish orphanage in Warsaw that was moved into the ghetto by the Nazis. In 1942, he voluntarily followed the children and staff who were rounded up and sent to the gas chambers at Treblinka.
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