Janusz Korczak's birth name is Henryk Goldszmit.

Janusz was the director of an orphanage in the Warsaw Ghetto and voluntarily followed the children into the gas Chambers of the concentration camp at Treblinka.

Janusz Atlas died on January 3, 2010, in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland of multiple myeloma.

Janusz Korczak, a Polish-Jewish educator and writer, died in the gas chambers of the Treblinka extermination camp during World War II. It is believed that he died with around 200 children from his orphanage, whom he refused to abandon.

His name was Janusz Korczak. He ran an orphanage in Warsaw and accompanied his pupils to the Treblinka Death Camp.