Janusz Korczak
1878
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1942
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
languages spoken, written or signed: Polish
educated at: University of Warsaw, Imperial University of Warsaw, Flying University
occupation: pedagogue, pediatrician, children's writer, screenwriter, writer, teacher
award received: Peace Prize of the German Publishers' and Booksellers' Association, Złoty Wawrzyn Akademicki, Order of the White Eagle, Order of Polonia Restituta, Silver Cross of Merit, Commander of the Order of Polonia Restituta, Knight of the Order of Polonia Restituta
official website: pskorczak.org.pl
Janusz Korczak, the pen name of Henryk Goldszmit (22 July 1878 or 1879 – 7 August 1942), was a Polish Jewish pediatrician, educator, children's author and pedagogue known as Pan Doktor ("Mr. Doctor") or Stary Doktor ("Old Doctor"). He was an early children's rights advocate, in 1919 drafting a childrens constitution. After spending many years working as a principal of an orphanage in Warsaw, he refused sanctuary repeatedly and stayed with his orphans when the entire population of the institution was sent from the ghetto to the Treblinka extermination camp during the Grossaktion Warschau of 1942. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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