Pediatrician, Author of Childrens' Books, and Co-Founder of an Orphange. Janusz Korczak was the pen name of Henryk Goldszmit, son of Jozef and Cecelia Gebicka Goldszmidt. His father was a respected Warsaw attorney. Following the creation of the Warsaw Ghetto, Korczak was ordered to move his orphanage - Dom Sierot at Krochmalna 92 - to the Ghetto. He was offered the chance to stay "on the Aryan side," due to his privileged and prominent position, but refused, preferring instead to remain with his young charges. With each deportation from the Ghetto to a Death Camp, Dr. Korczak refused offers of assistance to escape by hiding. In August of 1942, when the Ghetto was being liquidated, Dr. Korczak accompanied the children on the cattle cars, singing songs and comforting them. He was the author of thirteen childrens' books and four textbooks about child-raising. There is a bronze cenotaph for him in the Okopowa Street Jewish Cemetery in Warsaw, Poland, and another in Jerusalem, Israel.
Pediatrician, Author of Childrens' Books, and Co-Founder of an Orphange. Janusz Korczak was the pen name of Henryk Goldszmit, son of Jozef and Cecelia Gebicka Goldszmidt. His father was a respected Warsaw attorney. Following the creation of the Warsaw Ghetto, Korczak was ordered to move his orphanage - Dom Sierot at Krochmalna 92 - to the Ghetto. He was offered the chance to stay "on the Aryan side," due to his privileged and prominent position, but refused, preferring instead to remain with his young charges. With each deportation from the Ghetto to a Death Camp, Dr. Korczak refused offers of assistance to escape by hiding. In August of 1942, when the Ghetto was being liquidated, Dr. Korczak accompanied the children on the cattle cars, singing songs and comforting them. He was the author of thirteen childrens' books and four textbooks about child-raising. There is a bronze cenotaph for him in the Okopowa Street Jewish Cemetery in Warsaw, Poland, and another in Jerusalem, Israel.
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