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Son of Czechoslovakian Jewish graphic designer and artist Bedrich Fritta, Thomas Fritta-Haas takes part in a press conference during a press preview of the exhibition 'Drawings from the Theresienstadt Ghetto' at the Jewish Museum in Berlin May 15, 2013. The exhibition shows works Bedrich Fritta produced in the Theresienstadt ghetto between 1942 and 1944. Deported to Theresienstadt on December 4, 1941, Fritta supervised the drawing studio of the Jewish self-administration, before being deported to Auschwitz In October 1944, where he died soon after arriving. Over 50 works, produced secretly in the Theresienstadt camp, showing daily life there, are on display from May 17 to August 25, 2013. Thomas Fritta-Haas survived the camps, and was adopted by his father's close friend Leo Haas.

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