The purpose of this web-site is to show how Jewish children used art to get though the horrors of the Holocaust. It will go into detail on how the Jewish children like Nelly Toll use art to help remain alive in their struggle with the Nazi's and the Holocaust. Also drawings from the children of Terezin will be looked at to show how a group of kids and adults used art to express the hardships and horrors of the ghettos.These children were shown no mercy even for being so young. They were treated and looked upon just the same as their older counterparts. In the ghettos most children starved to death or were sent to the concentration camps where they quicky sent to the gas chambers to die because the Nazi's view them as unproductive.

The children of the Holocaust did not know what has happening to them. To most their days were spent in hunger and sadness, wondering why their old friends don't want to play with them anymore. So they had alot of time to themselves unless they were in the camps or ghettos. Art became a very quick and easy way of relieving the pain of every day life. From children to adults, everyone was slowly getting into expressing them on canvas. Some choose to show the hardships of everyday life though drawings like those by Leo Haas and Fritz Taussig from Terezin who under the veil of night drew pictures of life in the camps to try to get the message out for help. Others like Nelly Toll used art as a way to dream of what could happen and for remembering the good old days without the Nazi regime.

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