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= How do the children's pictures change? =

Home "I look, I look into the wide world, into the wide, distant world. I look to the southeast, I look, I look toward my home. I look toward my home, the city where I was born. City, my city, I will gladly return to you."

Franta Bass

At the Beginning
When painting, the children from the ghetto of Terezin would more often than not draw about their life, and what was going on during the war. When looking at the pictures from the beginning of the war, you can easily tell that the pictures are made with warm colors (red, orange, etc.) and they do not look depressing like many would have suspected.



At the End
Although as the period and war go on, the drawings that the children were continuing to paint, started to use darker colors. Their pictures and lives had become more grief. By the end of the war many children like Helga Weissova were not even using colors anymore merely lead. From most of the pictures you can see that the children are starting to think that the Germans are better than they are. The children often drew the Germans larger than the Jewish people, as tall, muscular, and sturdy leaders. The Jewish people are almost always depicted as shorter than the Germans, as short, unhealthy people. The pictures do get more depressing as the time period goes on, but this helps many people understand the children’s point of view.