Janusz Korczak

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Janusz Korczak was a Polish-Jewish pediatrician, educator, and pioneering advocate for children's rights who ran progressive orphanages in Warsaw and was killed during the Holocaust after refusing to abandon the children in his care.

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Janusz Korczak canonical 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Polish Jew
children's rights advocate
educator
human
orphanage director
pediatrician
radio personality
writer
advocatedConcept children's participation in self-governance
children's right to respect
birthName Henryk Goldszmit
burialPlace Treblinka extermination camp monument
surface form: Treblinka extermination camp memorial (symbolic)
causeOfDeath gas chamber
citizenship Poland
countryOfBirth Congress Poland
dateOfBirth 1878-07-22
dateOfDeath 1942-08-07
deportedFrom Warsaw Ghetto
deportedTo Treblinka
surface form: Treblinka extermination camp
Dom SierotLocation Warsaw
ethnicGroup Jewish
fieldOfWork children's rights
education
orphan care
pediatrics
gender male
implementedPractice children's court in the orphanage
children's parliament in the orphanage
democratic self-government for children
influenced Convention on the Rights of the Child
surface form: UN Convention on the Rights of the Child

children's rights movement
knownFor pioneering advocacy for children's rights
refusing to abandon children during the Holocaust
running progressive orphanages in Warsaw
languageOfWork Polish
livedIn Warsaw Ghetto
mannerOfDeath murdered in the Holocaust
movement progressive education
Nasz DomLocation Warsaw
notableIdea child as a full person with rights
notableWork Jak kochać dziecko
Król Maciuś Pierwszy
Król Maciuś na bezludnej wyspie
Prawo dziecka do szacunku
occupation author
educator
journalist
pediatrician
physician
radio broadcaster
operatedOrphanage Dom Sierot
Nasz Dom
placeOfBirth Warsaw
placeOfDeath Treblinka
surface form: Treblinka extermination camp
pseudonym Janusz Korczak
Stary Doktor
refusedOffer to escape deportation without the children
religion Judaism
worldWarIService Polish units
Imperial Russian Army
surface form: Russian Army

military doctor

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Flying University notableStudent Janusz Korczak
Janusz Korczak pseudonym Janusz Korczak