Janusz Korczak

Janusz Korczak (real name: Henryk Goldszmit) was a Polish Jewish doctor and author, who chose to die in the Holocaust rather than let the Jewish orphans he cared for go to their deaths on their own.

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  Janusz Korczak
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  The Krochmalna Street orphanage where Korczak worked. He lived in a room in the attic
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  The memorial to Janusz Korczak in Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial
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  Israel commemorative stamp issued in 1962