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A Girl Who Couldn't Draw Home


I was scrolling through my feed when a photograph stopped me cold.A young girl, maybe seven or eight, standing in front of a blackboard. Warsaw, 1948. The photographer was David "Chim" Seymour, sent by UNICEF to document the aftermath of war on Europe's children. The girl's name was Tereska. She was in a school for disturbed and war-traumatised children, and someone had asked her to draw "home."What she drew wasn't a house.No door. No windows. No chimney with a little curl of smoke. Not the kind

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