The Story of the Lodz Ghetto Children December 30, 2009

This exhibit tells the story of slave labor in the ghetto in the style of a fable. Consisting of 17 illustrated panels and explanatory text, it exposes the realities of ghetto life. This beautifully illustrated poem chronicles the imaginary adventures of children, interwoven with a subtext that expresses the despair and frustration of life under harsh ghetto conditions. Its illustrated pages - which closely resemble the images in mid-century children's books - were transformed into an exhibit in the early 1980s.