Twelve-year-old Helga Hošková-Weissová made this black ink drawing on paper while interned in Theresienstadt in 1943. It depicts a #Hanukkah service in the attic of children’s barrack L-410, where Helga lived in room 24. As a young artist, Helga brought drawing supplies with her when she was deported to Theresienstadt in December 1941. Instead of drawing peaceful scenes for propaganda as encouraged by the Nazis, she followed her father’s advice to “draw what you see.” Her artwork reflected everyday life and the reality of ghetto conditions. As deportations increased, Helga’s uncle hid her drawings in a wall. Having survived Auschwitz, she was able to recover them after the war. The man leading the service in the drawing is Walter Freud, who helped manage children’s barrack L-410. He was a puppeteer who organized children’s festivals and holiday performances. In this drawing, he is seen lighting four candles on the menorah. Freud was deported to Auschwitz in September 1944. Learn more and view some of Helga’s other artwork in our core exhibition, The Holocaust: What Hate Can Do. Plan your visit at the 🔗in our bio. . 📸: A black and white ink drawing with heavy crosshatching depicts a room with attic beams on the right-hand side, a group of children’s heads in the foreground, and in the back-left, a larger Walter Freud lights the menorah for many children at the children’s barrack L-410. The words “Happy Hanukkah from the Museum of Jewish Heritage” are below the drawing. Collection of the Museum of Jewish Heritage, 2271.90 . #AlwaysRemember #JewishHeritage #MJHNYC #MuseumOfJewishHeritage #NeverForget #HolocaustEducation #Hanukkah #FromOurCollection #WhatHateCanDo #ChildrenObserve #SpiritualResistance #BrightLights