Biography janusz korczak

Born in Poland 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.

Korczak stayed with the children throughout their transportation to Treblinka extermination camp, and is thought to have met his death there with 12 members of Dom Sierot’s staff and next to orphan children.

Throughout this piece, we will be exploring the life of Janusz Korczak, and the role he played throughout the Holocaust, in the following four sections:

• Early Life
• Dom Sierot
• The Warsaw Ghetto
• Death

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Early Life

As previously mentioned, Janusz Korczak was born in Poland, Henrky Goldszmit, later becoming known under his literary pseudonym Janusz Korczak.

Korczak was born into an assimilated Jewish family, and when his fat