Tereska, a child in a residence for disturbed children, grew up in a concentration camp. She drew a picture of "home" on the blackboard. Poland.

Tereska, a child in a residence for disturbed children, grew up in a concentration camp. She drew a picture of "home" on the blackboard. Poland.

Photograph

Chim (David Seymour)

Maker
Polish, 1911–1956

Tereska, a child in a residence for disturbed children, grew up in a concentration camp. She drew a picture of "home" on the blackboard. Poland.

Tereska, a Polish child in a home for disturbed children. When asked to draw a picture of her home, she produced these scrawls.


Poland, 1949


1949
Gelatin silver print, printed later
31.8 x 25.5 cm.
Purchase: General Sales & Auction Fund
1986.0091.0002
Inscriptions verso-(stamp) "(copyright symbol) David Seymour - Magnum"

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