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Artist and art teacher Friedl Dicker-Brandeis created drawing classes for children in the ghetto to whom she also taught Hana Brady ( Hana's suitcase ).

This activity resulted in the production of over four thousand children's drawings, which Dicker-Brandeis hid in two suitcases before being sent to Auschwitz.

This collection was thus preserved from destruction by the Nazis and was not discovered until a decade later.

Most of these drawings can now be seen at The Jewish Museum in Prague, whose Archive of the Holocaust section is responsible for the administration of the Terezín Archive Collection.

Others are on display at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem.

The children of the camp also wrote stories and poems, some of which were preserved and later published in a collection called I Never Saw Another Butterfly, taken from the poem by young Jewish Czech poet Pavel Friedman who was deported to Terezín on April 26, 1942 and later died at Auschwitz.