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| Treblinka village train station, 4 km from the Treblinka death camp. This photo was found in an album belonging to camp commandant Kurt Franz. Poland. Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz. Color photo Roman Wasserman Wroblewski. |
Recently, I found several mistakes in Lawrence Kohlberg's paper*, where he mentions Janusz Korczak.
Kohlberg wrote the following:
Janusz Korczak ... died during the Warsaw Ghetto uprising of World War II. For many years Korczak, trained as a pediatrician, had directed two orphanage schools in Warsaw, one for Christian children and one for Jewish children, expressing a universal concern that went beyond his Jewish heritage...
On the morning of August 6, 1942, German and Ukrainian guards surrounded the orphanage as part of the plan for elimination of "non-productive elements" to the Treblinka death camp. Prepared for death, Korczak led the 200 children from his own orphanage to the train station where the freight cars waited.
Wrong: "died during the Warsaw Ghetto uprising of World War II".
Right: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising took place in April- May 1943, and Korczak was already murdered.
Wrong: "On the morning of August 6, 1942, German and Ukrainian guards".
Right: The deportation occurred on the morning of August 5th, 1942.
- Also, numerous Polish researchers have notoriously repeated for many years that Korczak was murdered on August 5th, 6, 7th, or even 12th.
- There are correct assumptions that Janusz Korczak most likely died in a cattle car on the way to Treblinka on August 5th, 1942.
- Several witnesses saw Korczak and Dom Sierot orphanage deportation on August 5th.
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| In the Treblinka death camp, all new arrivals were sent immediately to the undressing area and from there to the gas chambers. There was no place to wait for death; see above numbers of Jews sent from the Umschlagplatz. |
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| L B S T together 24 733, 434 508, 101 370, 71 355_, [read- 713 555] 1 274 166 SS and Police Leader Lublin, HOFLE, Sturmbannfuhrer- |
On August 19, 1943, 7,600 Jewish survivors of the Bialystok ghetto uprising were sent to Treblinka and murdered upon arrival. Approximately 925,000+ people were killed in Treblinka II. Treblinka death camp was dismantled in the fall of 1943.
* Lawrence Kohlberg, The Philosophy of Moral Development: Moral Stages and the Idea of Justice (New York: Harper and Row, Publisher, 1981), pp. 402-403.
