Iwona Chmielewska

Little BlumKa tells the story of ordinary life at 92 Krochmalna Street in Warsaw, the orphanage founded by Janusz Korczak. This is where this brilliant doctor invented original ways to learn and live better together. This is where Blumka and his friends grew up, where they were loved, listened to and always respected. There were: Zygmus, who saved the life of a silver fish, Pola, who wanted to grow a pea in his ear, Chaimek, who was taken to court by an ant affair, Caillou, the courageous one, who carried coal in a chamber pot... It was also there that one morning in the summer of 1942, the Nazis put the 192 children, Doctor Korczak and the orphanage staff on a train direction of the Treblinka camp. But Blumka's diary is in our hands, stronger than oblivion.… (mais)