Janusz Korczak refused rescue and died with his orphanage children at Treblinka

Evidence

In August 1942, when the German occupation authorities ordered the liquidation of the Warsaw ghetto, Korczak was offered a way out. He refused. He stayed with the 192 children of his orphanage and accompanied them on the cattle cars to Treblinka. He and all the children died there. He was 64 years old. — , The Rod and the Child, 7579

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the moral-exemplar literature on children’s-rights founders and to Holocaust history of the Warsaw ghetto.
• SEED: Korczak’s refusal as a case study in the ethics of responsibility-to-care versus self-preservation — essay or teaching material on moral exemplarity.