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Sep 13, 2023 · Janusz Korczak with children in his orphanage. Janusz Korczak was the pen name of Henryk Goldszmit born in 1878 or 1879, physician, writer and educator. He was born in Warsaw, the son of an assimilated Jewish famly. Korczak's father was a successful attorney who became mentally ill when Korczak was eleven. This was a heavy blow to the family's ...
Jun 7, 2019 · Janusz Korczak. 7th June 2019 Righteous Gentiles. Born in Poland 1878 as Henrky Goldszmit, Janusz Korczak was a paediatrician, author of children’s books and a pedagogue. During the Holocaust, he refused sanctuary multiple times in order to stay with the children of an orphanage he both was director and founder of, Dom Sierot.
Janusz Korczak was a Polish-Jewish writer, paediatrician, and advocate for children’s rights. A popular author and broadcaster in pre-war Poland, Korczak was forced into the Warsaw Ghetto where he continued to care for the needs of orphans.
Janusz Korczak was born Henryk Goldszmit on July 22nd, 1878 to an assimilated Jewish family in Warsaw, Poland. He was an author, a pediatrician and a pedagogue. When Korczak's father, a prominent lawyer and the sole source of income of the household, died after illness in 1896, the family was left without a source of income and Korczak became ...
Janusz Korczak was born Henryk Goldsmit in Warsaw on July 22, 1878. During his youth, he played with children who were poor and lived in bad neighborhoods; his passion for helping disadvantaged youth continued into his adulthood. He studied medicine and also had a promising career in literature.
These pages of Korczak's diary provide a glimpse into the doctor's state of mind in late July 1942 as Nazi authorities began a massive wave of deportations from the ghetto. The featured entries reflect his concerns over the children's mental health, their weight loss, and the poor quality of their food and medicine.
Korczak was a legend of his own time. Born into an assimilated Jewish family in Poland, he followed in the footsteps of his paternal grandfather, a physician, and his father, a prolific writer. He studied medicine, specializing in pediatrics. In 1904, he was drafted for the Russo-Japanesse war and ten years later, for World War I.
