Today is the 82nd anniversary of Janusz Korczak’s death. On August 6, 1942, the Nazi German occupiers took Janusz Korczak, all co-workers and two hundred pupils out of the Orphans’ Home to their last path. Remba: “These were the first Jewish ranks to go to death with dignity.” All of them were transported in covered, crowded carriages with windows barred with barbwire to the extermination camp in Treblinka, near Małkinia.
In March 1905, Janusz Korczak received his doctor’s diploma and started working at the Children’s Hospital in Warsaw. During 7 years of work in the hospital, Korczak served children as a doctor, teacher and writer. He persistently popularized pediatric knowledge.
In 1912, Korczak left the hospital and became the director of the Orphans’ Home, under the care of the “Aid for Orphans” Society. He worked with Stefania Wilczyńska and they took care of 85 pupils. For Korczak, the Orphanage became a place of pedagogical observations of the educational process, and a place where new pedagogical ideas were born (for example, the paper “Tygodnik Orphanage” which was co-created by children).
On August 6, 1942, the Nazi German occupiers took Janusz Korczak, all co-workers and two hundred pupils out of the Orphans’ Home to their last path. Janusz Korczak probably died in transport to Treblinka, and not in its gas chambers.