The film is based on the real experience of Janusz Kozak (Janusz Korczak). After the German occupation of Warsaw in September 1939, Kozak refused the invitation of the Germans and used his capacity as a professor and doctor to set up a Jewish orphanage in Warsaw and educate these children. In 1942, as the persecution of Jews intensified, Kozak raised money to feed 200 Jewish orphans and contacted the resistance, but they were soon arrested by the Gestapo. Kozak refused the Swiss passport that the German lackey got for him, determined to stay with the children, and eventually he died with the children in the Treblinka gas chamber. The film tries to portray Kozak as a Christian character who takes care of death, depicting him putting justice and dignity in a more important position than security and life. The footage of the children running freely in the countryside at the end of the film is a good wish, and the director may think it would be too cruel to film them in the gas chamber.
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