One of the factories that employed children was the tailors' workshop. When we discuss the "chaos" of the Holocaust and the fact that the normal world was turned on its head, the fact that children were employed in a tailors' workshop in the Lodz ghetto is just another expression of this. In a normal world, children are told by their parents to stay away from scissors, from needles, from other sharp and dangerous objects that could hurt them. In the Lodz ghetto, not only did children have to work in order to stay alive, which was already a reversal of the normal order of things, but children had to work with dangerous objects that in a normal world they would never be allowed to touch.