The evolution of objects

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Introduction

When a deportation notice was printed in the Łódź ghetto in August 1944, it was meant to dictate instructions to those imprisoned. It conveyed the order that 5,000 people would be deported from the city every day, to an undisclosed location elsewhere. It stipulated that workers were desired, that families would be kept together and that a certain allotment of luggage would be allowed. Few knew that this was all a lie, and that the destination was the Auschwitz-Birkenau labour camp, where those unable to work would be murdered. 

DOI

https://doi.org/10.24199/GEOR1116

Citation

Haumschild, D. & Holloway, S. (2026). The evolution of objects. PRISM, 2, 20–23. https://doi.org/10.24199/GEOR1116