Bedrich Fritta

Czech artist Bedrich Fritta trained in Paris and then worked as a graphic designer and cartoonist in Prague until 1941, when he was deported to the Terezín ghetto. There, along with other artists and engineers, he was ordered to direct the painting section of the technical department that produced propaganda materials for the Nazis. In the studio, Fritta and his fellow artists covertly produced paintings and drawings documenting daily life in the ghetto. When SS officers discovered these artworks, the artists were sent to a Gestapo prison and then deported to Auschwitz, where Fritta died. After the war, more than two hundred of his drawings were discovered hidden in the former ghetto.