Último tren a Treblinka

Wednesday 5th August 1942. Warsaw. An orphanage with 200 Jewish children is run by the doctor and educator, Korczak, who along with his inseparable collaborator, Stefania Wilczynska, formed a true children’s republic there. Working with children, he created a Constitution with its laws and regulations, as well as a Criminal Code.

We will be spectators (whilst feeling part of them, as we will be sitting on their bunk beds) of their last day at the orphanage and we will witness the moment when they receive the cruellest of news: they must go to the train that will take them to the gas chambers at theTreblinka concentration camp, where the Nazis had exterminated hundreds of thousands of human beings.

The show pays tribute to these victims and remembers Janusz Korczak, an exceptional human being who fought until his death to improve the life of children. Today, most of the poor in the world are still children and most children are poor.