Janusz Korczak & the Children of the Ghetto,' Janusz Korczak Square, Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial, Jerusalem (Israel). Sculpture by Boris Saktsier, depicts the Polish-Jewish educator Dr. Henrik Goldschmidt [1878-1942] (known by his pseudonym Janusz Korczak), as he stands in the center of a group of children and shelters them with his body and his outstretched, embracing arms. Janusz Korczak & the children of his orphanage were sent to the Treblinka death camp on August 5, 1942.

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