Mural - Boy from the Ghetto - Piotr Saul and Damian Idzikowski, 2016

On ulica Franciszkańska in the Bałuty district of Łódź stands the mural "Boy from the Ghetto". It depicts one of the boys deported to the Łódź Ghetto in October 1941, when approximately 20,000 Jews from Western Europe were brought to Litzmannstadt Ghetto. The mural was created in 2016.

Artists and deportation background

The mural was created by Piotr Saul, assistant at the Department of Painting and Sculpture at Wrocław ASP [Academy of Fine Arts], and Damian Idzikowski, a student at Łódź ASP, based on a concept by Katarzyna Tośta. The image reproduces an archival photograph from the period when transports of deportees from Western Europe arrived at the ghetto.

Part of a larger project

The work belongs to the series "Children of Bałuty - memorial murals", conducted by the Urban Forms Foundation with support from the History Museum. It commemorates the fates of Polish, Jewish and Roma children from the Łódź Ghetto in the form of portraits on buildings in Bałuty. Since 2012, 21 murals have been created in this way.

Nearby you can see other works from this series: mural Zisele Świerc, mural Abram Cytryn and mural Abramek Kopłowicz.

Practical information

• Address: ulica Franciszkańska 13, Bałuty district, Łódź
• Access: easy from Łódź city centre, mural on a building wall on the street
• What to expect: mural accessible 24 hours, free and with no access restrictions