ISRAEL POST on 26 December 1962 issued a first day cover stamp honouring Dr. Janusz Korczak. The designer was O. Adler. The postmark cancellation originated from Jerusalem. The first day cover cachet on this maxi card depicts Dr. Korczak with orphans and barbed-wire background.
Besides Israel, Dr. Janusz Korczak has been featured in commemorative issues from Poland and Germany.
Dr. Janusz Korczak was a prominent Polish educator, children's author, doctor and social activist -- one truly outstanding man who refused to save his life, not once but three times for the sake of others. After the Nazis took control of Poland in September 1939, Korczak received offers of refuge but refused to leave his young charges, who were forced into the Warsaw ghetto. And when those 200 or so children were rounded up for deportation to the Treblinka concentration camp, Korczak famously accompanied them in a dignified march to the train station. Most of them, including Korczak, perished in Treblinka.
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