The Death Cart - Lodz Ghetto
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- Catalogue number
- Subject period
- Second World War
- Production date
- 1980
- Materials
- medium: acrylic
- support: hardboard
- Dimensions
- Support: Height 914 mm
- Support: Width 712 mm
- Alternative Names
- object category: painting
- Creator
- Category
- art
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Object description
image: People carry bodies wrapped in white sheets to a horse-drawn cart in a city street. Other people look on from
windows and doorways, their faces largely skull-like in appearance.
Label
The Lódz Ghetto (historically the Litzmannstadt Ghetto) was the second-largest ghetto established for Jews and Roma in
German-occupied Poland after the Warsaw ghetto. Situated in the town of Lódz and originally intended as a temporary gathering point for
Jews, the ghetto was transformed into a major industrial centre, providing much needed supplies for Nazi Germany and the German Army.
Because of its remarkable productivity the ghetto managed to survive until August 1944, when the remaining population was transported to
Auschwitz. It was the last ghetto in Poland to be liquidated.
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