There are two letters** from the General Secretary of Kibbutz Ein Harod to the Jewish Agency for Palestine (Sochnut), regarding Janusz Korczak´s (Henryk Goldszmit) and Stefa Wilczynska's immigration to Mandate Palestine. Below are two handwritten original documents in Hebrew
Stefania "Stefa" Wilczynska visited Eretz Israel (Mandate Palestine) twice before deciding to make her life there, and on her third visit, she probably, officially immigrated, living for a year and a half at Kibbutz Ein Harod.
Also, Janusz Korczak decided and planned to immigrate as well in 1939.
In late April 1939 Stefa returned to Poland and the outbreak of WWII stopped her return and also Korczak´s plans to leave Poland in September-October 1939.
Both returned to work at the orphanage Dom Sierot.
On August 5th, 1942, Korczak, Stefa, and numerous educators went with 239 orphanage children to their deaths in the Treblinka extermination camp.
* Israel State Archives is the national archive of Israel, located in Jerusalem.
** Ghetto Fighters House Archives
Researchers, please mark that there is another Stefanja Wilczynska in the Israel State Archives. She survived the war and was in the UNRRA camp after the war waiting to re-enter Eretz Israel.
Researchers, please mark that there is another Stefanja Wilczynska in the Israel State Archives. She survived the war and was in the UNRRA camp after the war waiting to re-enter Eretz Israel.
