Art Exhibit: A Child Artist in Terezín: Witness to the Holocaust
Reeves Memorial Library, Seton Hill University
To honor the memory of victims of the Holocaust, and of Terezín in particular, the Honorary Consulate General of the Czech Republic-Philadelphia, offers this unique series of drawings and watercolors by Helga Weissová-Hosková. Transported from Prague to Terezín in December 1941, with her brushes and paints packed among her limited luggage, then twelve-year-old Helga created a personal diary of conditions of life in Terezín. Both Helga and her mother survived, despite deportation to other Nazi camps, including Auschwitz and Mauthausen. This powerful collection of artworks chronicles life during the Holocaust seen through the eyes of a young artist, facing uncertain and extreme conditions as everyday facts of life. This exhibit is sponsored in memory of Laura Sudimack Ridge, mother of former governor Tom Ridge, and the entire Sudimack Family. This exhibit is free and open to the public.
During the exhibit, Reeves Memorial Library will be open: Monday - Thursday 8:00 a.m.-10:50 p.m.; Friday 8:00 a.m.-4:50 p.m.; Saturday 9:00 a.m.-4:50 p.m.; Sunday 1:00 p.m.-10:50 p.m.