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JANUSZ KORCZAK
(1878-1942) 

HENRYK GOLDSZMIT KNOWN BY THE PSEUDONYM JANUSZ KORCZAK WAS
A PROGRESSIVE EDUCATOR PHYSICIAN AND SOCIAL WORKER WHO
DIRECT A JEWISH ORPHANAGE IN WARSAW ALONG WITH EDUCATOR
STEFANIA WILCZYNSKA. 

JANUSZ KORCZAK WROTE NUMEROUS PIONEERING BOOKS ON PEDAGOGY
AND CHILDREN’S LITERATURE. MANY OF WHICH WERE LATER TRANSLATED
AFTER THE NAZI INVASION OF POLAND AND WHEN THE ORPHANAGE’S
ENTIRE POPULATION WAS DEPORTED TO TREBLINKA IN AUGUST 1942.
INSISTED ON ACOMPANYING HIS CHARGES. 

VIEWING THE ORDERLY THREE-MILE PROCESSION OF 200 WELL DRESSED
CHILDREN LED KORCZAK TO THE TRAIN. A WITNESS TOLD HISTORIAN
EMMAUEL (ILLEGIBLE) THIS WAS NOT A MARCH TO THE RAILWAY
CARS, THIS WAS AN ORGANIZED WORDLESS PROTEST AGAINST THE
MURDER