Korczak
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Korczak is a Polish noble
family name. It may also refer to:
Szlachta
The szlachta was a legally privileged noble class with origins in the Kingdom of Poland. It gained considerable institutional privileges during the 1333-1370 reign of Casimir the Great. In 1413, following a series of tentative personal unions between the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Kingdom of...
family name. It may also refer to:
- Korczak Coat of Arms
- Janusz KorczakJanusz KorczakJanusz Korczak, the pen name of Henryk Goldszmit was a Polish-Jewish children's author, and pediatrician known as Pan Doktor or Stary Doktor...
, a pseudonym of Henryk Goldszmit, Polish pediatrician, children's writer and pedagogist, murdered by the Germans at the Treblinka extermination camp- Korczak (film), a 1990 movie on Janusz Korczak, starring Wojciech Pszoniak
- Korczak (musical), a musical based on the life of Janusz Korczak
- 2163 Korczak2163 Korczak2163 Korczak is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 16, 1971 at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory. It is named for Polish children's writer Janusz Korczak.- External links :...
, a main-belt asteroid named in memory of Janusz Korczak
- Rozka Korczak, a resistance fighter in Vilnuis ghetto and later a partisan
- Korczak, Podlaskie VoivodeshipKorczak, Podlaskie VoivodeshipKorczak is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Trzcianne, within Mońki County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland....
(north-east Poland) - Korczak Ziółkowski, American designer and sculptor of Crazy Horse MemorialCrazy Horse MemorialThe Crazy Horse Memorial is a mountain monument complex that is under construction on privately held land in the Black Hills, in Custer County, South Dakota. It represents Crazy Horse, an Oglala Lakota warrior, riding a horse and pointing into the distance. The memorial was commissioned by Lakota...
Similar family names
- Jaromír Korčák, Czech geographer, demographer and statistician (1895 – 1989)
- Josef Korčák, Czech Communist politician (1921 – 2008)