title: The art of the children of Terezin. A psychological study.
abstract: This study is an analysis of the content and symbolism inherent in the art of children who were imprisoned in the Terezin Concentration Camp during the Holocaust. Its purpose is to attempt to understand how they perceived and sought to cope with the conditions of their lives at the camp, and to assess the degree of psychic damage suffered by them. The major themes are food, family and freedom, intense feelings of claustrophobia, a sense of the fragility of one's physical existence and the lack of human value of the camp inmates. Impressive is the absence of evidence of serious mental illness and aggression. It may be inferred that these manifestations did not have survival value.
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authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Gaezer Grossman
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D001154:Art / Q000266:history; D002648:Child; D002652:Child Behavior / Q000208:ethnology / Q000502:physiology / Q000523:psychology; D002657:Child Development; D002663:Child Language; D046688:Child Mortality / Q000208:ethnology / Q000266:history; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003209:Concentration Camps / Q000266:history; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D010698:Phobic Disorders / Q000208:ethnology / Q000266:history / Q000523:psychology; D013561:Symbolism; D047789:World War II