mocak – Wander Europe / Traveling like snobs, but for less money Sun, 06 Sep 2015 17:46:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4 Lego Concentration Camp /index.php/2015/09/06/lego-concentration-camp/ Sun, 06 Sep 2015 17:45:51 +0000 /?p=947 Continue Reading →]]> This was on display at the MOCAK contemporary art museum in Krakow.  Apparently it was done with cooperation from Lego.

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Photographs showing the lego concentration camp set.

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Unfolded boxes for the lego concentration camp sets.

The holocaust is such a hard thing to understand on a personal level; the scale is just too big.  Different approaches can help make the problem relatable for different people.  The combination of mass produced children’s toys and assembly-line genocide was surprisingly powerful to me.

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