Janusz Korczak, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Janusz Korczak

Polish physician and writer

Date of Birth: 22-Jul-1878

Place of Birth: Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 07-Aug-1942

Profession: screenwriter, pedagogue, pediatrician, children's writer

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Janusz Korczak, the pen name of Henryk Goldszmit (22 July 1878 or 1879 – 7 August 1942), was a Polish-Jewish educator, children's author, and pedagogue known as Pan Doktor ("Mr.
Doctor") or Stary Doktor ("Old Doctor").
After spending many years working as director of an orphanage in Warsaw, he refused sanctuary repeatedly and stayed with his orphans when the entire population of the institution was sent by the Nazis from the Ghetto to the Treblinka extermination camp, during the Grossaktion Warschau of 1942.