Proyecto artístico-educativo en memoria a los 15000 niños que perecieron en el campo de concentración de Theresienstadt en colaboración con la artista austriaca Anna Wexberg.

1. PROYECTOMEMORIALA LOS
15000 NINOSQUE
PERECIERONEN
THERESIANSTADT
Anna Wexberg
Austria

2. “JAMÁS TE OLVIDES POR QUÉ”
es un proyecto memorial abanderado por Anne Wexberg-Kubesch, en el que se
quiere recordar a los 15000 niños judíos recluidos entre 1942 y 1945 en
Theresienstadt. Desde ahí casi todos fueron enviados al campo de concentración de
Auschwitz y luego asesinados. Aproximadamente sólo unos 100 niños
sobrevivieron.
Habrá 15000 tarjetas en memoria a estos niños, elaboradas por alumnos de
diferentes instituciones y centros de todo el mundo.
Tras una pequeña labor pedagógica previa con materiales educativos sobre lo que
ocurrió en ese campo de concentración con esos niños, se les invita a utilizar temas
de recuerdo personales, memoria colectiva u olvido para personalizar estas tarjetas.
Las postales serán proporcionadas por la artista austríaca y enviadas a las personas
interesadas para que se pueda escribir un mensaje individual.
Todas las formas de creatividad serán bienvenidas. Coleccionaremos las tarjetas en
Viena, las cuales serán presentadas en varias acciones publicas. En una pagina web
se podrán leer todos los mensajes (de manera anónima). Al final de las
presentaciones, las tarjetas junto a un texto explicativo, serán depositados en un
archivo histórico para generaciones futuras.

7. Informacionsobre el proyecto y su difusion:
http://www.neverforgetwhy15000.at
Las tarjetas que se van creando son digitalizadas y pueden
consultarse en el apartado “die Karte” y Blog.

8. PREPARACION PEDAGOGICAY DIDACTICA
PARA LLEVAR A CABO EL PROYECTO ENEL
AULA

9. http://stewiessmartthoughts.blogspot.com.es/2011_11_20_archive.html
Children of the Holocaust...
some parts are pretty heart wrenching... Some images are shocking... but it is real...
These events really happened - and it is important that we take the time to see who is
impacted by war. Who is impacted by hate... and why we must be aware of what's
happening in our world, to ensure that this never happens again. We must educate
ourselves and be aware of what's happening in our world... and not be people of apathy.
Apathy is what caused the death of millions and millions of people throughout history, not
just during the Holocaust.
If you are a teen that watches action flicks where there might be shooting or death... then
you can probably handle this powerpoint below. If you cannot, then it is understandable...
These photos are a bit shocking.
https://youtu.be/xxZ9U8NHIWo

10. http://stewiessmartthoughts.blogspot.com.es/2011_11_20_archive.html
Franta (Frantisek) Bass was born in Brno on September 4, 1930. He was deported to
Terezín concentration camp on December 2, 1941, and died in Auschwitz on October
28, 1944. He was fourteen years old. A total of about 15,000 children under the age of
fifteen passed through Terezín, (Theresienstadt), a civilian town, turned ghetto, turned
concentration camp in the Bohemian mountains, just southwest of Prague,
Czechoslovakia. This town, built for only 8,000 people, at one stage housed close to
60,000.
Living conditions were poor; food was scarce, and shelter was wherever people could
find it.
Transports came and went until 1944 when only 100 of the 15,000 children that passed
through Terezín had survived, none under the age of fourteen.

11. http://stewiessmartthoughts.blogspot.com.es/2011_11_20_archive.html
What did survive was a suitcase full of drawings and poems done by the children of
Terezín between 1942-1944. In 1955, after ten years of collecting dust, the suitcase
was found and the contents restored. The pictures and prose of the children have been
read by millions around the world, and many of them are collected in a book, I Never
Saw Another Butterfly....
From collages, to crayon pictures and poems, to letters for lost parents, this collection
provides an interesting and rarely seen view of what was later known as the Holocaust.
The accounts and interpretations made by the children as these events occurred
around them is unique when studying this period of European history. The book was
compiled to inform, like most texts, about the Holocaust and the suffering of the Jewish
people.
But, this book was written by children. The accounts are not analytical or reflective,
simply the thoughts, ideas, dreams, and nightmares of the innocent minds of young
children with no sense of history. The writings tell of lost innocence, and, with intuitive
subtlety, reveal the fears and suspicions of what the adults know of Terezín, but do not
tell.

12. http://stewiessmartthoughts.blogspot.com.es/2011_11_20_archive.html
Pictures of home, loved ones, butterflies and flowers are signs of hope in a hopeless
situation, and poetry about homelands and freedom are as much about faith and belief
in the future as they are dreams of the past. But as years go by and people come and
go, how long must a child wait to be free? Paintings grow dull and gray; poetry
saddens, and we realize that there is no longer innocence in Terezín.
http://www.edu.gov.mb.ca/k12/cur/socstud/foundation_gr6/blms/6-2-4b.pdf

13. Terezín was the nazi concentration camp located at Prague’s outskirts. The
“Lobby of the hell” was the last stop for 150.000 Jews and 15.000 kids and pre-
teenagers. A woman –Friedl Dicker Brandeis– dedicated her time during the
internment teaching stealthily art and painting as evasive therapy for many of
those kids. Before leaving Terezín for going to her final destiny, she rescued
4.500 drawings. These drawings were used as clues during Nuremberg’s Trial,
and they’re an indelible sample of the horror.
http://kurioso.es/english-2/the-kids-who-lived-and-drew-the-holocaust/
The kids who lived and drew
the Holocaust

14. Helga Weissova. 13 years old. She tells in this drawing how the Germans forced
them to reduce the bunks, with the aim of trying to make the hut appearance less
narrow and then cheat the Red Cross inspection. Terezín.

15. Ella Liebermann. 16 years old. Very tight, the jews from every part of Europe were
sent to the death.Bedzin’s ghetto. Poland.

16. Ella Liebermann. 16 years old. Children were torn out from the arms of their
mothers. Bedzin’s Ghetto. Poland.

17. Alfred Kantor. 17 years old. He wrote
about this drawing: “Touch the wire fence
meant instant death. However, people
shared bread, a smile, a tear…”. Terezín.

18. Edita Pollakova. 9 years
old. The deportation train
arrives at Terezin. Edita
died the October 4th of
1944 at Auschwitz.

19. Ella Liebermann. 16 years old. Eating and soup
distribution. Bedzin’s ghetto. Poland

20. Helga Weissova. 13 years old. Drawing titled “Terezín arrival”. Helga entered in
the concentration field with just 12 years old. She brought a box with paintings and
a notebook. She draw more than 100 paintings doing what her father told her:
“Paint whatever you see”. Here ended Helga’s childhood. With the responsibility of
painting everything she saw and experienced. She was one of the few survivors.

21. Helga Weissova. The last drawing of her
series, made at Terezín’s exit in 1945.
Everything can be sensed in the children’s
look.

22. Yehuda Bacon. Being 16
years old he drew this
portrait of his father recently
gassed and burnt at
Auschwitz. The face of his
father emerges emaciated
through a curtain
of smoke. Impressive.

23. I came up with Terezín before watching the drawings of the Spanish kids of the Civil War.
I thought that the Holocaust should have its own “painter kids” and I found
documentation about this here, here,here, here and here. Friedl Dicker’s history and lots of
those paintings can be found in the book “Fireflies in the dark” and here.Ella
Liebermann and Helga Weissova survived the Holocaust and became famous artist. Helga
has followed the steps of her mentor –Friedl Dicker– and is dedicated to educate others
about the disgrace.Ella Liebermann continued painting until her death in 1988.

24. CHILDREN’S DRAWINGS FROM THE
TEREZÍNGHETTO
http://www.jewishmuseum.cz/en/collection-research/collections-funds/visual-
arts/children-s-drawings-from-the-terezin-ghetto/

25. http://www.hanassuitcase.ca/?p=174
http://www.cbc.ca/hanassuitcase/
http://rhombusmedia.com/film/inside-
hanas-suitcase/
Trailer de la película

26. http://holocaust
music.ort.org/pl
aces/theresiens
tadt/
Theresienstadt Musical life
http://www.theguar
dian.com/music/201
3/apr/05/terezin-
nazi-camp-music-
eva-clarke

27. Nuestras creaciones

42. EXPOSICIÓN EN
EL HALL