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Posted on July 14, 2008 - Total Views 99694
Child Draws Home
The effects of the World Wart II have not only resulted to the death of millions, but also a long-standing disturbance on the lives of those who survived, particularly children. They were the ones who greatly suffered from the pain and trauma brought by the war. They not only witnessed killings of their families and friends; they also lost their future. They may have survived the war, but the pain will forever be there.
Among those who suffered this effect is Teresa, a young Polish girl who lost her family during the war. While in staying in a concentration camp, she drew an unrecognizable image on the blackboard, which was somewhat chaotic. When ask what her drawing was, she pertained to it as her “home”.
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(31 votes, average: 4.71 out of 5)
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Tags : 1948 • Blackboard • Concentration Camp • Drawing • Killings • Polish Girl • Trauma • Wart
August 26th, 2008 at 10:21 am
She wasn’t traumatized, she just didn’t have any drawing skills.
August 26th, 2008 at 10:27 am
lulz
August 26th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
Gourry: You must be a big A-HOLE
August 26th, 2008 at 6:29 pm
no! as you can clearly see, she wuz trying to draw a hand. she already drew a finger!
August 26th, 2008 at 8:05 pm
It’s a good thing this website is about photography. Very few of you have any idea what proper grammar is. That sort of disregard is very unprofessional.
August 26th, 2008 at 9:44 pm
I think this is just a case of someone trying to make a story out of nothing. That girl has to be what, 6, 7? She was scribbling, it’s what children do. I highly doubt her thoughts were that profound.
August 26th, 2008 at 10:29 pm
There’s a house down the street that looks just like that.
That little pollock was just ahead of her time.
Anybody know how to Google any of her other work?
August 26th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
First of all, 6-7 year olds know how to draw houses. Second of all, autism is not a disease that one can identify by the way someone’s face looks like down-syndrome and other disabilities. Third of all, I agree with what Tom said.
August 27th, 2008 at 2:32 am
This is just a clear cut case of people who sit around all day talking on “chans” and finding something about the holocaust and making fun of it. Its a shame that people have the need to insult and defame when they should be learning and understanding
August 27th, 2008 at 2:43 am
look gais rules 1+2 lols i mean lulz
August 27th, 2008 at 7:27 am
she’ll have to try harder than that if she wants to be on Tony Hart
August 27th, 2008 at 8:23 pm
she failed
August 28th, 2008 at 3:28 am
The internet’s worst all piled up on the comments right here. I hope something dramatically bad happen to all of you and you all end up on a pulitzer winner picture and future a-holes like you would put some random idiotic comments and make fun of you, like the way you are making fun of the girl in the picture right now. In fact, I would love the catastrophe to be much, much worse than what she has been through. I really wish.
August 28th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
I cannot believe the total lack of understanding and human compassion show by some of these comments. I agree with Crouton and could not have said it better.
Some of us still speak English, and others might show some depth to their humanity by expressing themselves in “Whole” words.
August 28th, 2008 at 4:28 pm
hehe….”world wart II”
August 28th, 2008 at 9:25 pm
Oh my god, this girl lost her whole family and you people are laughing at her picture because you don’t understand it. Sickening. She didn’t have a home, she didn’t know of one. If this was taken at the end of the war then she lived her whole life just knowing that. This picture is really sad. Why doesn’t the human race learn from it’s mistakes?
August 29th, 2008 at 7:01 am
Tom, Sarah, Jason, Crouton, Donna, Ryuu, thank you for your intelligent comments. The rest of you epitomise ignorance and stupidity. Just look into the child’s eyes, can’t you see the horror in her stare?
August 29th, 2008 at 11:41 am
hehe reading comments is FUN!
her face is very confused; the result of a traumatized psyche, i’m sure. It’d be interesting to hear what her reactions were many years later to this image.
August 29th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
First looking at the photo draws me into thinking what I would do as a father to protect my child from that, how I would feel as I failed. Being killed knowing that there was noone to protect her.
However, if we cannot laugh and make fun, what is there worth protecting? A life of solemn contemplation of suffering? I think all the comments are great.
August 30th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
So… that’s why little girls can’t smoke marihuana.
August 31st, 2008 at 11:01 am
Obviously she’s a student of modern art. Duh.
But the look in her eyes is very disturbing.
August 31st, 2008 at 2:52 pm
this is why we invented etch-a-sketch
September 1st, 2008 at 9:30 am
sure, a child drawing house and barbed wires, it’s so funny … u guys r so ironic and funny
September 1st, 2008 at 2:00 pm
[...] Child Draws Home [...]
September 1st, 2008 at 4:31 pm
humor is the only properly proportional emotional response to ones confrontation with the extreme pathos and absurdity of the human condition. We suffer, we die, this is the human predicament! Its funny really that the most immediate response is empathetic participation in suffering rather than rebellion against and ridicule of the conditions prevailing in the world of illusion…gather your courage and dare to say…weenyweenywangdongdee
September 1st, 2008 at 5:39 pm
Teresa’s face registers consternation as she attempts to accurately portray the features of her favorite teacher, Mr Squiggles…
September 1st, 2008 at 9:30 pm
World wart II is definitely worse than world wart I. That’s when you know you’ve caught something from that shemale prostitute, it’s not just a random growth.
September 4th, 2008 at 7:51 am
Zarathustra, are you a poet on poetrywars? Whatever, I have been perusing these photos here for a couple of hours and there are definately a lot of people using their rights to free speech. For better or worse…..
September 4th, 2008 at 7:13 pm
koko have hous lik dat!! she make koko hous!!
September 5th, 2008 at 5:00 pm
yes koko, its the house that mexcans built…
September 5th, 2008 at 11:41 pm
I just love the look on her little face.
September 6th, 2008 at 2:45 am
this child has a future in the art world…
September 6th, 2008 at 9:17 pm
Believe it or not, I can actually draw.
September 8th, 2008 at 12:13 am
lol World Wart II.
September 8th, 2008 at 12:27 am
the one thing that doesn’t add up about this photo is that the description says she was in a concentration camp when she drew this, so i imagine that would be the same time this photo was taken, but look how she’s dressed. people in concentration camps didn’t wear fancy dresses and bows in their hair. so the closest explanation i can come up with to what they said it was is that she drew this photo AFTER getting out of the concentration camp. that’s all i can figure.
September 8th, 2008 at 12:33 am
children in concentration camps were allowed to dress up and draw pictures, this kept their moral up..it seemed important to keep them happy at the time…
September 8th, 2008 at 10:22 am
i think that susie is true!
September 8th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
someone give that girl a ruler.
September 8th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
She used to live in a labyrinth or smth ?
September 9th, 2008 at 6:02 pm
she like, “wtf u looking at”
September 10th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
re: kiol,
Judging by your spelling I am guessing that there are similar pictures of you out there on the web…
September 11th, 2008 at 1:05 pm
I’ve got quite a dark sense of humor, But some of the comments hear are pretty awful.
If you look at the picture and read the description, then write a funny comment. You clearly haven’t understood.
September 11th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
@Andy …understood what ?
September 12th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
she lives in my grannies yarn basket….
September 13th, 2008 at 7:57 am
@ Andy B - I’m with you. Obviously these smart comments are from people who have little understanding of what happened in Europe in WWII, and their entire take on the world can be expressed by WTF, OMG, ROFL, LMAO, and similar excretions. I pity these poor fools.
September 13th, 2008 at 6:13 pm
OMFG !!!
September 13th, 2008 at 7:47 pm
LOL!!
September 14th, 2008 at 9:48 am
C’mon trolls, no-one has said”Photoshopped” or “first” yet.
September 16th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
Thats what happens when you try to draw a 3D object at a 2D board.
September 17th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
@andjusticeforall..hahaha. thats some funny shit, good one!
September 20th, 2008 at 12:55 am
lost in translation,as usual. Should read ‘wHO ME?’ (you talkin’ to me?)
The well-known phrase ‘on 9/11′ was in fact translated from the French;
‘en neuf onze’ and correctly transcribed reads ‘honour Fonz’ ,making a none-too-discreet reference to ‘Happy Days’ - the French assessment of the situation.
Next time they want the Germans kicking out they can phone the ******’ A-team oops A-rabs
September 20th, 2008 at 9:58 am
I am Polish. I know how it is to be a child who survived the world war II, cause my grandmother did. Fortunatly she or any member of our family wasn’t at concentration camp, but she knew some people who was. They became suiciders after few years, cause what Germans did to our country, can be cured, but what they did to our mentality, is incurable. I have no anger to Germans because of that war. I have an anger to Hitler, cause he was the reason of this war. His racism was the reason of this war.
September 24th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
Hey, Marta, did you drop out of school in the 5th grade? How can you afford a computer and an Internet connection? You must be American, because in any other country you’d have starved to death by now.
September 25th, 2008 at 6:12 pm
why doesnt someone help this poor art student?
September 25th, 2008 at 6:13 pm
suddenly Teresa realized she shouldnt be in third term art class after all…..
October 1st, 2008 at 10:17 pm
This girl’s life parallels that of my mother-in-law, who was a victim of the London Blitz. She suffered from Post Traumatic Stress all the rest of her life, beacame a suicidal substance abuser, and made her family’s life a living hell.
War, the gift that keeps on giving … misery!
October 7th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
face it folks, im an idiot and attention *****
October 8th, 2008 at 9:11 pm
often after the toils of the day I come here to look again at Teresa’s face…it never fails to put a little spring back into my step.
October 12th, 2008 at 1:15 am
I agree completely with sarah jason crouton and donna
October 12th, 2008 at 9:25 pm
that theres a cute little girl!
October 13th, 2008 at 11:43 am
OMG…I tried to feel bad..and Marta’s comment made me kinda say “aww crap nowi feel bad.” then i read on and laughed again…I hate u guys..Ive got a one way ticket to hell..but meh doesnt sex before marriage,drinkin and rock music do that to u anyway…cuz Im wwaaaayyy there…I think Theresa was in my class in school..her art was always better than mine…so jelous!
October 21st, 2008 at 5:49 pm
Rofl she looks like such a ******* dumbass aaaaahahahaha
love, dont go into ******* art thats all i can say, its not your strong point LOL
October 23rd, 2008 at 12:11 pm
Things only have the meaning we ascribe to them. This goes for both the picture and whatever posts you find morally reprehensible. Who cares what other people post, so long as you know what the picture means to you? You don’t have to say how terrible the posts are. Everyone knows already. The internet is a wasteland of porn and corny jokes, and anything you say will be made fun of. Deal with it.
October 25th, 2008 at 2:12 pm
Someone once said, “It takes true understanding to be intentionally ignorant.”
I’m sure that applies to 99% of the “ignorant” posts here.
Besides, what good was the Holocaust if we can’t look back on it and laugh?
October 27th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
Hey, “Me”.
How ignorant are you?
Why don’t you try visiting a foreign country like, say… Poland and try to speak the language they speak and see how well YOU DO.
Idiot.
October 31st, 2008 at 10:26 am
World Wart 2? Yuck.
October 31st, 2008 at 10:05 pm
stumbleupon + 4chan + **** who think they want to be heard = stupid comments
November 4th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
If she was an artist, it would be seen as a work of art and sold for millions at some action
November 5th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
oh my god i actually got tears in my eyes..
November 5th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
wow, what a ugly house!
November 6th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
it doesn’t matter if she drew it in or out of the ******* concentration camp!.
and you ******* damn BARBIE! go to hell! you sarcastic *****!
November 6th, 2008 at 6:37 pm
I immediately thought “maybe she is drawing barbed wire?” Nothing abstract about it.
November 6th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
I used to have a house like that but I sold it to some immigrants.
November 8th, 2008 at 3:02 am
what a priceles little expression, kudos to the photographer who captured that!
November 9th, 2008 at 10:48 pm
Looks to me like she just soiled herself.
November 10th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
i wunder how hard it was to learn to tie a shoe
November 11th, 2008 at 11:20 pm
I wonder if she tied a noose and hung herself?
November 12th, 2008 at 10:06 pm
this is faked, it came out later that this was actually drawn by the french expressionist painter, Emil.
November 12th, 2008 at 10:06 pm
someone should hang you martyn, you byatch
November 12th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
From what I heard - this picture was taken after liberation of the concentration camp she was in. She was put in a psychiatric facility, and this was when she was ASKED to draw her home.
Black boards in concentration camps…?
And by the way - humor is SO not the proper defense mechanism for this. It’s just cruel and numb to write what some of these people wrote… sad, really…
November 13th, 2008 at 12:21 am
Careful what you make fun of, people. You pampered, clueless little parasites have just elected the most unqualified person in history to lead this country in the most vulnerable time we’ve ever faced. I vote we bring back the draft; maybe some of you pathetic ******** can find out what it took to make this country.
November 13th, 2008 at 8:16 pm
If I had the time I would like to see how many rude people there are compared to people who insult the rude people, I might also find how many people are neither, just do that to see a once-in-a-blue-moon type of thing. That would be interesting.
November 14th, 2008 at 8:39 pm
martyn is a fagboy!
November 15th, 2008 at 10:04 am
@Ovisobscuris (#63)
you are the only rationally thinking person to have posted a comment on this picture.
November 16th, 2008 at 11:46 am
looks like she’s drawing the splooge marks i left all over her mom after i fuked her senseless all night. that look on the kids face is the same one her mom gave me when she saw how huge my **** was.
November 18th, 2008 at 8:21 am
if inthe past there was “world war ll” today there is alot of attacments worst than word war and if there were some children today there are lots of children like her…..so what do we have to do?
November 19th, 2008 at 12:06 am
I think that a lot of you are wrong and that her thoughts are as profound as they are made out to be. Many people don’t really realize how smart kids can be. They know whats going on and traumatic events really do impact them at any age.
November 20th, 2008 at 8:04 am
I thought i left a comment on here earlier.Where is it?
November 20th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
who is this little girl?
November 20th, 2008 at 10:03 pm
this isnt a real little girl, anyone can see she is made of plastic, she is a cleverly made doll. you people will go for anything.
November 22nd, 2008 at 12:03 am
this girl lives in a haystack.
November 22nd, 2008 at 11:07 am
Most of you are idiots. Analysis of children’s drawings done during war time often exhibit the same chaos. Ask any child of peace to draw a home and you’ll have sub par artistry, but you’ll recognize a home and people.
November 23rd, 2008 at 9:10 am
children are so dumb. why are they allowed to be seen? we should lock them up until they can quit being retarded. that guy in austria had the right idea
November 26th, 2008 at 5:31 am
Someone PLEASE check the text under the photo and tell me this :
wtf is world warT II ???
November 29th, 2008 at 10:36 am
*sigh* world wart II was a situation that happened sometime between the year 1336 and 1338. scientist have theorized that it all started when the moon men launched an attack on the jews, thus provoking the kenyans to start mass murdering themselves(because they were nigers). meanwhile, bolivia started to shoot missiles at the sun but stopped when poopoo commanded them. that is world wart 2 in a nutshell, dumbasses!
December 4th, 2008 at 9:27 pm
I command the sun moon and stars.
December 18th, 2008 at 4:43 am
this little girl would do well to learn to smoke Marlboros…
December 23rd, 2008 at 12:54 pm
All you guys are ******* ********.
December 25th, 2008 at 9:51 am
My sort of kid. Psychotic and blonde. Where did I put my pixie win.. err juice..
December 30th, 2008 at 10:52 am
Wtf some of you guys are such idiots. If she was her house being blown up thats what she will draw. You can find out what is going on in a family just by looking at a kid’s drawings.
December 30th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
golly gee williekers! that little gal was in a tornader!
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of you know any good places that would be awesome!
I also saw it was featured on OPRAH so maybe there is some truth to this lol.
January 4th, 2009 at 8:18 pm
this little girl needs a good marlboro cigarrette so she can stop looking so puzzled!