From Ms. Cormier's Gr. 6 ELA class....Harmony E In the article ̈Friedl Dicker-Brandeis and the Children of Theresienstadt ̈ is a story about an artist named Friedl Dicker-Brandeis and how she helped hundreds of Jewish children while they were imprisoned in a concentration camp. She along the side of other artists, and teachers helped encourage the children to create, forget about their surroundings, and give them hope. Friedl affected the lives of the children at Theresienstadt in many positive ways. One way Friedl affected the lives of the children is that she helped them to forget about their terrible surroundings. For example the text states “ Friedl decided to use art to help the children deal with their feelings of loss, sorrow, fear, and uncertainty.” also “ They allowed the children to forget about the sad and horrible truth.” This shows even though Friedl was in the same conditions as the children she still sacrificed so much of her time to teaching the children and helped them open their imagination more and more. She helped them to forget about the bad times and create new happy thoughts and feelings through art work. Friedl helped them cope with their feelings by teaching them Techniques and letting their imaginations and memories take over. Another way Friedl helped the children at Theresienstadt is she gave them a legacy. For example Friedl had the kids put their name and age on any piece of art work they created. Before Friedl left Theresienstadt to go to Auschwitz, she hid the paintings in a suitcase to be found after the war. After they were found most of the paintings were put into museums. This shows that Friedl contributed to the Jewish children being noticed, and not forgotten about. Now since the artwork has names and ages on them the children are thought of as children who went through horrible things, and not just another victim of the Hollocasut. Because the art was preserved so well and tells a story, it is used as a teaching tool for teachers all across the world. Friedl Dicker-Brandeis truly impacted and greatly affected the lives of the children who suffered in Theresienstadt.
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