Rachael+and+Tara+Drawing

=When did the kids find time to draw? =



Fear "Today the ghetto knows a different fear, Close in its grip, Death wields an icy scythe.  An evil sickness spreads a terror in its wake,  The victims of its shadow weep and writhe.  Today a father's heartbeat tells his fright  And mothers bend their heads into their hands.  Now children choke and die with typhus here,  A bitter tax is taken from their bands.  My heart still beats inside my breast  While friends depart for other worlds.  Perhaps it's better – who can say? –  Than watching this, to die today?  No, no, my God, we want to live!  Not watch our numbers melt away.  We want to have a better world,  We want to work – we must not die!"

Eva Picková, 12 years old, Nymbur ===No one really knows when the children found time to draw during the Holocaust. In a school located in the ghetto of Terezin a kindergarten teacher shared some of her drawing and art books with the children. However, it is not believed that this is when they found the time to draw. That is the reason because the teacher only allowed the children to look at the drawing and art books for a moment or two, no longer then that short period of time. The girls seemed to have more interest in the topic. Far more of the drawings that survive today were drawn by females. This proves that the females found the time more often then the males did. This may be because the girls were in the teachers class or that the girls just found interest in explaining themselves in pictures rather then explaining in words. ===

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By: Rachael 