On a rainy afternoon in 1943, in Ghetto Terezin, or Theresienstadt, a group of prisoners was digging ditches. While the storm was raging, sheltered temporarily by a shed, Fred Terna found a scrap of paper, and started sketching. It was his first serious work as an artist.

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Fred has been creating moving, meaningful, challenging and beautiful art since that day in Terezin. This gouache is a beautiful piece entitled "The Sanctuary"