Janusz Korczak

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Janusz Korczak is famous for his courageous response to the Nazis. In 1939 Germany invaded Poland. At the time Korczak operated an orphanage in Warsaw. The Germans ordered him to move his orphanage to the ghetto where the Polish Jews were forced to live. As well as the orphanage, Korczak took over responsibility for a hospital for dying and sick