#korczak — Public Fediverse posts
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↪ 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
Janusz #Korczak Monument is in #Warsaw at Świętokrzyski Park.
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↪ 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 children's constitution ⏩