Friday, September 30, 2011

Janusz Korczak (1878 -1942)

Korczak was a Polish-Jewish pediatrician and author who, despite several offers to escape, refused to abandon close to 200 Jewish orphans and went to an extermination camp with them during the Holocaust. 

Wikipedia:  Janusz Korczak

Yad Vashem:  Janusz Korczak

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