On 4 February the virtual exhibition "I disegni dei bambini di Terezin" organised by the Venice Office of the Council of Europe opened online. Consisting of 27 canvases and multimedia material, it presents a selection of a number of drawings and poems by the children of the Terezin ghetto. Despite the fact that the education of Jewish children was forbidden since the 1940 edict, prohibiting school attendance, in the ghetto they obtained permission to teach drawing, singing and handicrafts. The collection, now at the Prague Jewish Museum, has come down to us thanks to art teacher Friedl Dicker-Brandeis who succeeded in hiding the drawings in two suitcases. Following introductory addresses by Luisella Pavan-Woolfe, director of the Venice Office of the Council of Europe, Ermelinda Damiano, President of the City Council, Marcella Ansaldi of the Jewish Museum of Venice, and Michela Zanon of CoopCulture, the narrative voices of Marina Scarpa Campos, Associazione Figli Shoah, and Roberta Favia, Head of Education at the Jewish Museum of Venice, will accompany the virtual tour of the exhibition.

The exhibition is available at the following link: https://www.facebook.com/coevenezia.