Bedrich Fritta This is not a fairy tale. It's true. From Gerald Green's wonderful book The Artists of Terezin
Hand-bound book made for Tomas Fritta by his father Bedrich Fritta. Tomas survived. The Jewish Museum in Prague has published an English version of it. 'Bedřich Fritta Born September 19, 1906 in Višňová u Frydlantu, Czechoslovakia; died November 8, 1944 in Auschwitz-Birkenau Background He worked as a cartoonist and graphic designer in Prague before the war. Internment in Theresienstadt On November 24, 1941, Fritta was among 342 Jewish men from Prague deported by the Germans to Theresienstadt as part of the Aufbaukommando (construction battalion). In Theresienstadt he worked in the Technical Department, the Zeichenstube , where many artists were assigned. There he had access to drawing materials and paper, and he and other artists made drawings of Theresienstadt and its prisoners. On July 17, 1944, he was arrested with other painters there for creating what the Nazis called "horror propagand...