Commemorative coin
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47674
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Commemorative coin : cut, stamped, incised, gilded : silver, blue, gold
- Date
- 1978
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Commemorative coin : cut, stamped, incised, gilded : silver, blue, gold
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1978
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Language
- Polish
- Notes
- Coin: on the obverse, is the portrait of Korczak, looking straight forward. On the reverse, is the Coat of Arms for the People's Republic of Poland. Inset, without adhesive, into a blue backboard. Housed in a clear, square box: the lid and bottom are clear, with small ridges along the edge. Narrative: Janusz Korczak, (the pen name of Henryk Goldszmit) was a Polish-Jewish educator, children's author, and pediatrician. After spending many years working as director of an orphanage in Warsaw, he refused freedom and stayed with his orphans when the organization was sent from the Ghetto to Treblinka extermination camp in 1942. (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janusz_Korczak) The People's Republic of Poland (Polish: Polska Rzeczpospolita Ludowa, PRL) was the official name of Poland from 1952 to 1989 (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_Poland)
- Accession No.
- 2011X.58.432
- Name Access
- MHMC
- Places
- Poland, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
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