Mural on a wall at Przemysłowa Street commemorates the history of Polish children in camps during the Second World War. The work by artists Piotr Saul and Damian Idzikowski from 2016 is a place for reflection and historical education.
On the wall of a building at Przemysłowa 12 in Bałuty is one of the murals from the cycle "Children of Bałuty - murals of remembrance". It is the fifth in a series of identically titled works "Prisoner of a camp for Polish children", scattered across various addresses in the district - each successive version of the project was created in a different location, so the mural at Przemysłowa 12 should be treated as a separate, independent work, not a repetition of another.
The stencilled image was painted by Piotr Saul, a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław, and Damian Idzikowski from the Łódź Academy of Fine Arts, according to a concept by Katarzyna Tośta. It was created in October 2016 as part of the fifth edition of a project run by the association "Na co dzień i od święta" since 2012. The creators draw on archival photographs and in this way restore the images of former Łódź residents to places with which they were connected during their lifetime.
The mural refers to a camp for Polish children, the only concentration camp in the Third Reich created exclusively for children. It was located in the immediate vicinity, and a gate leading to its grounds stood opposite the place where the mural now stands. Only four people who passed through the camp are known by name: Dawid Sierakowiak, Abramek Koplowicz, Salek Berliński and Abramek Cytryn. By 2016, the entire cycle had already commemorated 25 children.
"Prisoner of a camp for Polish children" is a title repeated on several murals in different parts of Bałuty, created in successive editions of the same project. Each has a different address and its own history of creation, so in describing the work at Przemysłowa 12 we do not link it with the other versions of the series, despite the identical title.
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