Korczak in the Warszawa Ghetto, 1940
“Everyone makes so much of Korczak’s last decision to go with the children to the train. But his whole life was made up of moral decisions. The decision to become a children’s doctor. The decision to give up a full-time medical practice and writing career to take care of poor orphans. The decision to go with the Jewish orphans to the ghetto. As for that last decision to go with the children to Treblinka, it was part of his nature. It was who he was. He wouldn’t understand why we are making so much of it today.”
by Misha Wasserman Wroblewski (my beloved father), Jewish teacher who trained with Janusz Korczak for 11 years
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| Korczak´s application from September 20, 1940 with the photograph presented above |
