5 August 1942 — Janusz Korczak, Director of the Warsaw Ghetto Children's Orphanage, was deported to Treblinka together with his staff and some 200 children from his orphanage They were all murdered in the gas chambers. A prolific author and renowned educator, Korczak received numerous offers to save himself, but he refused to abandon the children. Instead, he walked hand-in-hand with the children and staff to the gas chambers in Treblinka. Born in Warsaw, Korczak dedicated his life to caring for

On 22 July 1878, Henryk Goldszmit aka Janusz Korczak was born. A pioneering educator and children's author in interwar Poland, Korczak refused offers of sanctuary in WWII and remained with 200 Jewish orphans under his care in the Warsaw ghetto, eventually dying alongside them in Treblinka. | British Poles