Defiance in the Face of Death
Memmorialized Coin, round 2-3/4” in original folder, showing Bust of Janusz Korczak three quarters to the right, head straight with a stylized signature: Janusz Korczak. The reverse shows Reverse: Two children in front of the holding in the hands of postage stamps. In 1942, when the Nazis rounded up the children in his Warsaw Ghetto orphanage and sent them to the death camp at Treblinka, Janusz Korczak refused to leave their side. He was murdered alongside his pupils shortly after arriving at Treblinka.
Memmorialized Coin, round 2-3/4” in original folder, showing Bust of Janusz Korczak three quarters to the right, head straight with a stylized signature: Janusz Korczak. The reverse shows Reverse: Two children in front of the holding in the hands of postage stamps. In 1942, when the Nazis rounded up the children in his Warsaw Ghetto orphanage and sent them to the death camp at Treblinka, Janusz Korczak refused to leave their side. He was murdered alongside his pupils shortly after arriving at Treblinka.
