HAUNTING artwork created by Jewish children living in a Nazi ghetto could be exhibited in the North-East.

Children’s Story, an exhibition documenting the creativity of persecuted children, is currently touring the UK.

Organisers of the exhibition, on loan from the Jewish museum in Prague, are now looking for spaces around the region in which to display the poignant artwork.

Brian Devlin, currently in the process of developing a children’s war museum, is hoping to find schools, churches or museums interested in presenting the exhibition between October and December.

He described the artwork, drawn by children of primary school age, as an example of children’s voices and creativity in the worst possible circumstances.

The children were held in the Terezin Ghetto, 60 kilometres north of Prague - a ‘camp-ghetto’ set up to serve as an assembly area for Jews before they were transported to extermination camps.

Approximately 140,000 prisoners passed through Terezin between 1941 and the end of the war in 1945.

Mr Devlin said: “Very few of these children survived. This artwork is the one fragment we have to remember them.”

The exhibition also tells the tale of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, a Viennese artist who taught the children how to draw – recognising, Mr Devlin says, the importance of giving them a sense of normality.

The art lessons ended when she was transported to Auschwitz in October 1944, 70 years ago this month.

For details call Mr Devlin on 01896 756402.