Fotobiografia janusz korczak biography
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- koncepcja, wybór tekstów i opracowanie graficzne, Maciej Sadowski = Janusz Korczak : photobiography / rendering book piece together, choice short vacation texts distinguished graphic found, Maciej Sadowski
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- 189 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
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- 9788324402038, 8324402039, 8324402038
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Janusz Korczak
Polish pediatrician, educator and children's author (1879–1942)
Janusz Korczak, the pen name of Henryk Goldszmit[1] (22 July 1878 or 1879 – 7 August 1942),[2] 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, in 1919 drafting a children's constitution.
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 ghetto, despite pleas from friends to flee the country. He was executed when the entire population of the institution was sent to the Treblinka extermination camp during the Grossaktion Warschau of 1942.[3]
Early life and education
[edit]Korczak was born in Warsaw in 1878. He was unsure of his birth date, which he attributed to his father's failure to promptly acquire a birth certificate for him.[4] His parents were Józef Goldszmit,[1] a respected lawyer from a family of proponents of the haskalah,[5] and Cecylia née Gębicka, daughter of a prominent Kalisz family.[6] Born to a Jewish family, he was an agnostic in his later life. He did not beli