They Shall Be Counted is a gallery of original paintings and drawings by Erich Lichtblau-Leskly created while imprisoned in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) Ghetto. In the spring of 1945, Lichtblau-Leskly cut most of his artwork into pieces. His wife, Elsa Lichtblau, hid the fragmented artwork under the floorboards of the barracks, and Lichtblau-Leskly was able to retrieve it after liberation. While living in Israel during the 1950s and 1960s, he reworked these fragments into larger watercolor illustrations. Both original sketches and reworked illustrations will be on display in the collection. Meghan Gieseker, Education Associate at Illinois Holocaust Museum, expertly guides the viewer through each slide that artistically depicts the daily lives of its residents, poignantly capturing the complications and ironies of ghetto life.

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