The exhibition is organized by the Polish National Archives - with over 7,000 children's drawings made in 1946. The drawings were created as a post-war initiative and part of processing the trauma after the German occupation. 

- I wanted to show the Polish drawings from 1946 earlier, but then there was no interest.

Only when the Ukrainian war came did they see that what Polish children had drawn could happen again, that children and civilians are brutally murdered, says Dorota Sadowska.

Now the Polish drawings are shown together with Ukrainian drawings from the project "Mom, I see War", in which 13,500 children's drawings have been collected since Russia's invasion in February this year.

Draws his dreams

The Polish children drew their drawings after the war, the Ukrainian ones do not yet know what it will be like after the war.

Polish children drew things related to victory, children who came home by train, while Ukrainian children draw what they dream about.  

The idea is to make a permanent digital collage of the Ukrainian drawings, among other things to draw attention to the war's impact on children.  

- The child is always the victim of war, whichever side it is on.

The child suffers, loses his parents and relatives, has to flee, hunger and fear.

The exhibition is a protest against the war, in Ukraine and in the world, says Dorota Sadowska.

Listen to the children

- It is important that we adults look at the war with a child's eyes.

- Perhaps a bit naive, but if we listened to the children, there would perhaps be fewer conflicts, at least that is my childish wish, she says.