Sie Sind Frei, Doktor Korczak

A feature film telling the story of the prominent pediatrician and educator Dr. Janusz Korczak. Dr. Korczack does everything in his power to maintain the dignity of the 200 children in his progressive orphanage in the Warsaw Ghetto, despite the hopelessness of their situation. Eyewitnesses have testified that an SS Officer exchanged words with Korczak as he escorted the children to the trains that deported them to their death in Treblinka. Whether or not the Germans were offering him his freedom, Korczak chose to accompany the children and to die together with them.