Polish-Jewish doctor, children's author and educator who ran an orphanage in Warsaw. In 1942 he refused offers of rescue and went with his orphans to their deaths at Treblinka.
Kēzhākè péibàn gū'éryuàn de háizimen yìqǐ zǒujìn le jízhōngyíng.
Korczak accompanied the orphanage children into the concentration camp.
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Korczak is a pen name: he was born Henryk Goldszmit and borrowed it from a novel by the Polish writer Józef Ignacy Kraszewski. Polish 'cz' sounds like English 'ch', which is why the middle syllable is 扎.
