Korczak, the pen name of Henryk Goldszmit, was born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1878. He was a Polish Jew who became a pediatrician, educator, children’s author and advocate for children’s rights.

Janusz Korczak, the pseudonym of Henryk Goldszmit, was a doctor, teacher, writer and humanitarian. During the Holocaust he ran an orphanage for Jewish children in the Warsaw Ghetto.

Janusz and Stefa follows the final months of Warsaw Ghetto’s Orphan’s Home, a Jewish orphanage led by world-renowned Jewish-Polish pediatrician and advocate for children’s rights, Dr. Janusz ...