We recently hosted world-renowned historian Simon Sebag Montefiore here at the National Library of Israel, where he was interviewed onstage by the wonderful Matti Friedman. You can listen to the full conversation by checking out the link in the first comment. During the talk, Montefiore told us about: His favorite place in Jerusalem The antisemitism he experienced in the UK while writing his classic - "Jerusalem: The Biography" His strange communications with Vladimir Putin, how he was allowed p

5 August 1942 — Janusz Korczak, Director of the Warsaw Ghetto Children's Orphanage, was deported to Treblinka together with his staff and some 200 children from his orphanage They were all murdered in the gas chambers. A prolific author and renowned educator, Korczak received numerous offers to save himself, but he refused to abandon the children. Instead, he walked hand-in-hand with the children and staff to the gas chambers in Treblinka. Born in Warsaw, Korczak dedicated his life to caring for