![1943 painting of the Vltava River in Prague created from a photograph by Theresienstadt prisoner Bedrich Fritta. [LCID: 44154]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/b307cb0d-5b78-4bec-b802-0e8f43100ec9.jpg)
1943 painting of the Vltava River in Prague created from a photograph by Bedrich Fritta when he was imprisoned in Theresienstadt. Fritta (1909-1945) was a Czech Jewish artist who created drawings and paintings depicting conditions in the Theresienstadt camp-ghetto. Fritta was deported to Auschwitz in October 1944. He died there a week after his arrival.
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