The Embassy of the Republic of Poland in London wrote on Twitter:
Today is #WorldTeachersDay, celebrating all teachers around the world. One special educator was Janusz Korczak, an author, and pioneer of children's rights who ran a Warsaw Ghetto orphanage. When the children were sent to the Treblinka extermination camp, he insisted on going with them.
However, Korczak on the deportation day had no choice! Not 239 children from Dom Sierot and the children from other orphanages. Nor 6 623 other Jews that were sent on August 5th, 1942 to Treblinka.
Meaning insists: demand something forcefully, not accept refusal.
There were some possibilities to leave the Warsaw Ghetto before. Chances to leave during the Great Action were minimal. To leave, to be released from Umschlagplatz were almost zero. Chances to survive on the Aryan side were also minimal. Read Ringelblum's story below:
In March 1943, Ringelblum and his family were smuggled out of the Ghetto and hidden on the “Aryan” side of Warsaw under a greenhouse in the suburb of Ochota, along with about thirty other Jews. On March 5, 1944, Ringelblum was betrayed by a Pole, and his refuge was discovered by the Germans. Ringelblum, his family, and all the others in the hiding place, as well as the Pole who hid them, were taken to Pawiak prison. Ringelblum and his family were shot by the Germans amid the ruins of the Warsaw ghetto in March 1944.
Today is #WorldTeachersDay, celebrating all teachers around the world. One special educator was Janusz Korczak, an author, and pioneer of children's rights who ran a Warsaw Ghetto orphanage. When the children were sent to the Treblinka extermination camp, he insisted on going with them.
However, Korczak on the deportation day had no choice! Not 239 children from Dom Sierot and the children from other orphanages. Nor 6 623 other Jews that were sent on August 5th, 1942 to Treblinka.
Meaning insists: demand something forcefully, not accept refusal.
There were some possibilities to leave the Warsaw Ghetto before. Chances to leave during the Great Action were minimal. To leave, to be released from Umschlagplatz were almost zero. Chances to survive on the Aryan side were also minimal. Read Ringelblum's story below:
In March 1943, Ringelblum and his family were smuggled out of the Ghetto and hidden on the “Aryan” side of Warsaw under a greenhouse in the suburb of Ochota, along with about thirty other Jews. On March 5, 1944, Ringelblum was betrayed by a Pole, and his refuge was discovered by the Germans. Ringelblum, his family, and all the others in the hiding place, as well as the Pole who hid them, were taken to Pawiak prison. Ringelblum and his family were shot by the Germans amid the ruins of the Warsaw ghetto in March 1944.
