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Janusz Korczak
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Person

Janusz Korczak

1878 – 1942 · aged 64

Polish-Jewish educator and physician (1878–1942)

Born
21 Jul 1878 · Warsaw
Died
7 Aug 1942 · Treblinka extermination camp
Part ofPoland967 CE – todaySecond Polish Republic1857 – 1945Ashkenazi Jews1818 – todayJudaism74 BCE – today

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 74 years
  1. 21 Jul 1878BornBorn in Warsaw
  2. 1904 – 1905WarRusso-Japanese War
  3. 1914 – 1918WarWorld War I
  4. 1919 – 1921WarPolish–Soviet War
  5. 1931AwardSilver Cross of Merit
  6. 1937AwardGolden Laurel of the Polish Academy of Literature
  7. 7 Aug 1942DiedDied in Treblinka extermination camp

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1878 – 1942).

  1. 18961896 Summer Olympics
  2. 1898Spanish–American War
  3. 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
  4. 1917Balfour Declaration
  5. 1917February Revolution
  6. 1917October Revolution
  7. 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
  8. 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
  9. 1920Treaty of Versailles
  10. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  11. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  12. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  13. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  14. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  15. 1938Munich Agreement
  16. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  17. 1939 – 1945World War II
  18. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  19. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  20. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  21. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  22. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad

Biography

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, drafting a children's constitution in 1919.

After spending many years working as a principal of an orphanage in Warsaw, he moved in with his orphans when the orphanage was forced to move to the city's Jewish ghetto, despite pleas from friends to flee the country. He was murdered when the entire population of the institution was sent to the Treblinka extermination camp during the Nazi deportation campaign of 1942.

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