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On Feb. 9, the College hosted an opening reception for “A
Child Artist in Terezin: Witness to the Holocaust,” an
exhibit featuring drawings by Helga Weissova-Hoskova. Held
in the Rehm Library of Smith Hall, the reception featured
a talk by Edgar Krasa, of Newton, another Terezin survivor.
Krasa once shared a room with Hoskova in the ghetto.
Born in Prague on Nov. 10, 1929, Hoskova was deported to
Terezin, a camp northwest of Prague, on Dec. 17, 1941. Her
brushes and paints packed among her limited luggage, the
12-year-old created a personal diary of her images of life
in Terezin. She was sent to Auschwitz with her mother on
Oct. 14, 1944, and, then, to the work camps at Freiberg and
Mauthausen. She survived and returned to Prague, where she
studied painting with the Czech artist Emil Filla.
Hoskova remains alive and active, working as an artist in
Prague. This collection of artwork chronicles life during
the Holocaust as seen through the eyes of a young artist
facing an uncertain future.
The exhibit, co-sponsored by the Center for Religion, Ethics
and Culture; the Center for Interdisciplinary and Special
Studies; and the Cantor Art Gallery, is being staged in collaboration
with Clark University’s Strassler Family Center for
Holocaust and Genocide Studies exhibit, “Forging a
New Life: The Jewish Experience in Central and Eastern Europe
on the Cusp of a New Millennium.”
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