The artist created seven boxes for Lego sets, almost identical to those produced by the Danish company: with the Lego logo and the traditional photograph of the finished design on the package. In the case of Zbigniew Libera's sets, however, it is not a space or train station, nor a medieval castle. Instead, the artist used authentic Lego bricks to construct a Nazi concentration camp.
All bricks have been sourced from actual Lego sets. The prisoners are played by smiling skeletons (taken from the Pirates set), and the camp guards – by slightly modified figures from the Police Station set. The two largest boxes contain bricks that can be used for building a crematory and a camp barracks surrounded by a barbed wire fence with a gate, protected by two watchtowers. The middle-sized box shows a picture of a warehouse with clothes and personal belongings – taken away from the prisoners entering the camp – spilling out of its four doors. The images on the remaining four small boxes present a prisoner beaten by a guard, a group of prisoners standing behind a barbed wire, and the camp's commander. Another image shows medical experiments carried out on the prisoners' skeletons by a camp doctor.
The list continues – we see an execution by hanging, cremation ovens, bodies carried out of the crematory by fellow prisoners, and bodies dumped in a hole in the ground. All of these atrocities can also be constructed out of Lego bricks. After all, they too were human creations. If, as the slogans say, anything can be constructed out of Lego bricks (“With Lego, you can make anything you want”), it doesn't only have to be an image of a happy world, ruled by peace and harmony, but can also be a reflection of a different order, with leaders and subjects, prisoners and tyrants, executioners and their victims. The artist explained his idea:
The thought that led me to making this piece was related to rationality which is the foundation of the Lego bricks system, in a petrifying way: one can't build anything out of these bricks that isn't based on a precise, rational system.
Whilst working on the Lego Concentration Camp (Lego. Obóz koncentracyjny) project, Zbigniew Libera created a series of drawings, naturally accompanied by the company's logo. They include characteristic Lego figures, whose monstrosity is actually given away in their shadows, in which their heads transform into skulls, hands – into long claws, and a soldier – into a frightening bat.
