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On #HolocaustRemembranceDay 
I'd like to share one of the most moving stories of Jewish resistance that I've heard.
I'd like to share one of the most moving stories of Jewish resistance that I've heard.
One of those resistance stories is the story of Henryk Goldszmit, but he was known under the pen name Janusz Korczak.
He was born around 1879 to Jozef Goldszmit and Cecylia Gębicka.
In 1898, he studied medicine at the University of Warsaw, and started writing children's books.
He was born around 1879 to Jozef Goldszmit and Cecylia Gębicka.
In 1898, he studied medicine at the University of Warsaw, and started writing children's books.
In 1912, Korczak was appointed director of a Jewish orphanage in Warsaw with a Jewish woman named Stefania Wilczyńska. They treated their children in orphanage according to their philosophy that children should be treated with respect, which was revolutionary at the time.
Janusz was well known at the time for his works on raising children, his most famous being How To Love A Child. It was the first book written on children's rights. And in his orphanage, he created a parliament, court, and newspaper, all ran by the children on their own.
When the Warsaw Ghetto was created, Janusz struggled constantly to provide food and medicine for the children under his care. He was struggling with his own health, but he constantly spent his time trying to sneak food to his orphans, and keeping them entertained. Pic from 1940.
Being well known, Janusz was constantly offered safety on the "Aryan side" of the Ghetto, but he refused to seek safety for himself if his children weren't able to come with him.
On 5 Aug 1942, the Nazis came to deport him and his 200 orphans to Treblinka. He was once again offered safety, but once again, he refused to be saved if the orphans couldn't be saved as well.
Before boarding the trains to Treblinka, the Nazis recognized him and considered giving him special treatment because they enjoyed his work. Once again, he refused, because he did not want to leave his children.
That day, Korczak dressed his children in their best clothes, each carrying a blue knapsack, and holding two of the children's hands. He repeatedly kept telling them how proud he was of them and refused to leave their side, as they were about to be murdered in the gas chambers.
