From the Never Forget the Holocaust No Matter Who You Are Department:

May God have mercy on the brave soul of Janusz Korczak.


Janusz Korczak was a Polish Jewish educator who ran an orphanage in the Warsaw Ghetto just prior to its liquidation in 1942. His story is at once tragic and courageous. Given the chance to escape the ghetto, Korczak chose to stay with his children, ultimately perishing along with them at Treblinka.


Never forget, heroes are everywhere.


Like Anne Frank's, Korczak's diary was later published, after being smuggled out of the ghetto after his death and sealed up in the walls of a Catholic orphanage that Korczak previously ran in a Warsaw suburb. Even before his diary, however, Korczak was already a well known educator throughout Poland. He wrote 24 books and published over a thousand newspaper and magazine articles on childhood education. In the mid-1930s, he hosted his own radio program.


For the Catholics in the audience who think the Holocaust has nothing to do with them, remember St. Maximilian Kolbe and St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein).