![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.jpeg)
Painting of the Vltava River in Prague by Bedřich Fritta, 1943. Fritta (1906–1944) was a Czech Jewish artist who painted this work and many others while he was imprisoned in the Theresienstadt (Terezín) ghetto from 1941 to 1944. He was one of five artists who were arrested in July 1944 for smuggling artwork out of the ghetto. They were sent with their families to the Small Fortress, a nearby Gestapo prison. In October 1944, Fritta was deported to Auschwitz, where he died shortly after his arrival.
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