Korczak Janusz

  • Korczak, Janusz, 1878-1942
  • Goldszmit, Henryk, 1878-1942
  • Ḳorts'aḳ, Yanush, 1878-1942
  • קורצאק, יאנוש, 1878-1942
  • Ḳorṭshaḳ, Yanush, 1878-1942
  • ...
Identifier
000224
Type of Entity
Person

Dates of Existence

22/07/1878

1942

History

Jewish educator, author, doctor, refused protection from the Judenrat, August 1942 deported from Warsaw ghetto to Treblinka, together with the 200 children in his care.

Places

  • Place of birth

  • Treblinka,camp

Sources

  • The YIVO encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe / ed. G. D. Hundert. - Yale Univ., 2008. - p. 925

  • Encyclopedia of the Holocaust / ed. I. Gutman. - New York : Macmillan, 1990. - Vol. 2, p. 816-818