Janusz Korczak was born Henryk Goldszmit, on July 22, 1878 in a Jewish family. From 1911, Janusz Korczak led two children houses. He developed the ideas of a peaceful and classless society. He was always fighting for a better community and education for the children. He was a principal for the children houses, a doctor, a publisher of a children's newspaper, as well as an author. Then World War II began in 1939. Under the regime of the Nazis in Warsaw, they created the Jewish ghetto and the orphan house was forced to move there. Janusz Korczak lived with the children under inhumane conditions. When, on August 5, the Germans rounded up the two hundred children he'd cared for, Korczak stayed with them during their "deportation" from the orphanage, to the trains, to Treblinka Camp. People who observed Korczak and "his children" walking to the trains describe the children holding hands, carrying knapsacks and marching with dignity. All perished at Treblinka." (http://www.iearn.org/hgp/aeti/aeti-1997/janusz-korczak.html)******************* The photo of the monument in honor of Janusz Korczak was taken at the Warsaw Jewish Cemetery on October 2004. This monument, created by Mieczyslaw Smorczewsky, shows Korczak carrying one child, followed by several others, on their way to the trains. Around the base of the monument are small candles lit in their memory. ************* Israel marks tonight and tomorrow Holocaust Memorial Day.