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The Old House
"Deserted here, the old hous stands in silence, alseep.  The old house used to be so nice,  before, standing there,  it was so nice.  Now it is deserted,  rotting in silence--  What a waste of houses,  a waste if hours."

Franta Bass

Are any pictures similar?
Not one picture the children drew is identical to the next picture. However most have a common object or common theme. For example, three young children from the ghetto of Terezin all drew a picture of a small, weak-looking house, with giant, purple and blue mountains in the background, towering over the house and land below their feet. In almost all of the pictures that have Nazis are drawn in them, the Nazis look bigger and stronger then the Jews. The Jews look helpless and hungry. This really depicts what was happen and the children noticed the circumstances their parents, friends and themselves were in. As the time period goes on the all of the pictures get more detailed and disturbing (more information). One predominate artist during the Holocaust was Helga Weissova, she drew in the ghetto of terezin and many of her drawings are similar to the other children’s. However her drawings look nothing alike. All of her drawing that she drew herself were not similar to any of the other pictures she drew.



       By Rachael