EALING North MP Steve Pound visited Alec Reed Academy in Bengarth Road, Northolt, last week to see an exhibition of children’s artwork that from the former Nazi concentration camp at Terezin near Prague.

It was the last stop for 150,000 Jews and more than 15.000 children. Only 132 children are known to have survived.

Artist Friedl Dicker Brande dedicated her time to teaching art in secret as a form of therapy for many of the children passing through the camp on the way to death camps such as Auschwitz and Treblinka.

After her husband was deported to Auschwitz, she volunteered herself for the next transport. However, before she left, she managed to rescue more than 4,000 examples of the children’s artwork and hide them. They were retrieved after the war.

Mr Pound said: “I was greatly impressed by the way in which the Alec Reed pupils had grasped the dread realities referred to in the artwork and, at such a difficult time, it is vital to remember the horrors that people have inflicted on each other in Europe.

“We should match this with a determination to prevent any such recurrence.”

The exhibition of 40 prints, on loan from the Jewish Museum in Prague, will be open to the public this Saturday (24) from 10am-2pm. Admission is free.