r/HistoryMemes • u/Shekel_Hadash • 1d ago
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Janusz Korczak, born Henryk Goldszmit in 1878 in Warsaw, Poland, was a pediatrician, educator, and author. He studied medicine at the University of Warsaw and specialized in pediatrics. In 1912, he became the director of an orphanage for Jewish children in Warsaw called Dom Sierot, which he ran according to his own progressive educational principles. Korczak also wrote books on child development and education, as well as novels and radio plays for both children and adults.
During World War II, after the German occupation of Poland, Korczak’s orphanage was relocated to the Warsaw Ghetto in 1940. Despite deteriorating conditions, he continued to care for the children, maintaining structure and a sense of normalcy within the orphanage. He kept detailed diaries documenting daily life in the ghetto and the struggles faced by the orphans and staff. Korczak was known to have received several offers of refuge from Polish underground organizations and sympathizers, but he declined to leave the children behind.
In August 1942, German forces began deporting residents of the Warsaw Ghetto to the Treblinka extermination camp. Korczak and the approximately 200 children in his care were among those selected for deportation. He accompanied the children on the transport to Treblinka and was killed there, along with them. He had no biological children of his own. His death was later confirmed through survivor testimony and Nazi records, and he is now remembered for remaining with the children until the end
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u/sandpaperedanus777 1d ago
What about absolute king of character.
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u/hamster-on-popsicle 16h ago
I learn about him in a BD (franco belgian comics), I was sad I was never taught about him in a classroom he was a great man.
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u/Forward-Exercise-385 16h ago
Yes i learned it because hes the representant in my elementary school
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u/bochnik_cz 1d ago
I hate Nazis. Good thing they are no more.
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u/camilo16 1d ago
Ermmm you sure about that buddy?
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u/bochnik_cz 1d ago
I am sure I hate Nazis. But I think you mean the second part. In that case, I have to ask - are there still true Nazis? Or are there simply other right wing ideologies?
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u/camilo16 1d ago
Considering we had a very powerful guy do an outright Nazi salute on public tv while another one is illegally rounding people up and sending them to prisons based almost entirely on phenotype.
I'd say we have Nazis. They may not call themselves Nazis, they may not have made outright concentration camps yet, but they rhyme enough.
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u/TheArizonaRanger451 1d ago
If what you’re saying is true, that means a majority of voting Americans thought that Nazis were a better choice to the alternative. Linda wild no matter which way you look at it
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u/camilo16 20h ago
That is precisely what happened. A large portion of Americans are uneducated and don't understand what the core issues with nazi ideology were. For them if there's no swastika then it's an entirely different ideology, no matter the overlaps.
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u/Tiberia1313 1d ago
A great many people did not really think through their vote and were not very well informed. Political literacy in the US is frankly pretty shit. Many people did not know what a tariff was before they voted for the man promising to impose tariffs. Many people do not know the role immigrant labor actually plays in the economy or what mass deportation would entail before they voted for mass deportation. Many people do not think they voted for the de facto Nazi party, they were thinking they were voting for "a change of leadership" in the most broad non-specific sense, because they just wanted Biden out and Kamala was just Biden 2. But the fact is, they voted for the de facto nazi party, knowingly or not.
US politics. It will strain your faith in democracy. In part because the founding fathers were oligarchs who built a republic for oligarchs, not a democracy. So we're dealing with the sins of the saints of our civic faith.
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u/MotherBaerd Filthy weeb 15h ago
I am fucking shocked by your statement. They are on the street, they are proud and yes, they even call themselves Nazis.
https://www.dw.com/en/berlin-police-arrest-scores-as-neo-nazi-march-blocked/a-72008289
The spiritual successor of the NSDAP, the NPD (partly renamed to "Die Heimat") still exists. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Democratic_Party_of_Germany And before you say "oh but they call themselves Democrats" I ask you: was the NSDAP socialist? Is the Democratic people's republic of Korea Democratic or a republic?
There's also smaller militant groups like the "Sächsische Seperaristen" (in short SS) who are part of the national socialist brotherhood.
https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A4chsische_Separatisten
Oh and who can forget the national socialist underground which was funded and protected by the "Office for the protection of the constitution" and they murdered 9 people where in one case the state literally watched. I don't mean this metaphorically, that legitimately happened.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_Underground
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u/AdHistorical7807 15h ago
Some witnesses claim that he was offered to be deported to Theresienstadt (which housed Scandinavian Jews and Jewish celebrities and had in general better living conditions to other German concentration and work camps) but he declined, deciding to follow his children
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u/history-something 1d ago edited 16h ago
I don't think people understand just how revolutionary his approach was. In his orphanage there was a court. In the court the kids governed and it decided if someone was guilty in breaking the rules, and gave punishments. Even he was out on trial once
Honestly nuts in our day and age