[Egress from a network of multi-family basement dwellings, Krochmalna Street, Warsaw]

Krochmalna Street, named for a starch factory that had been located there in the eighteenth century, was home to some of Warsaw’s poorest Jews. Nobel Laureate and Yiddish writer Isaac Bashevis Singer lived on the street as a child and set many of his stories there; the orphanage of the famous Jewish educator Janus Korczak was located at No. 92. Until 1942, part of Krochmalna was incorporated into the Warsaw Ghetto.