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Janusz Korczak, the pen name of Henryk Goldszmit , was a Polish-Jewish educator, children's author, and pedagogue known as Pan Doktor or Stary Doktor . 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. Wikipedia  

✵ 22. July 1878 – 7. August 1942
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Famous Janusz Korczak Quotes

“I never realized that a child is capable of remembering so well and of waiting so patiently”

Janusz Korczak

Source: Loving Every Child: Wisdom for Parents

“I exist not to be loved and admired, but to love and act. It is not the duty of those around me to love me. Rather, it is my duty to be concerned about the world, about man.”

Janusz Korczak

Source: Warsaw Ghetto Memoirs of Janusz Korczak

“To reform the world - means to reform upbringing…”

Janusz Korczak

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