Janusz Korczak poses with children and staff at his orphanage
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Janusz Korczak poses with children and staff in his orphanage

Janusz Korczak (center) and Sabina Lejzerowicz (to his right) pose with children and younger staff in Korczak's orphanage in Warsaw, circa 1930-1939. Even as they were deported to their deaths at Treblinka in 1942, Korczak and his staff stayed by their children.

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