In September 1942, Leo Haas was deported to the Terezin (Theresienstadt) ghetto, north of Prague. As an artist, Haas was assigned to the Technical Department to illustrate propaganda material, which enabled him to secretly make a series of pictures showing what life in Theresienstadt was really like. He risked his life making these works, hiding the prints in walls and with the other inhabitants of Theresienstadt. After the war, Haas returned to Terezin, and retrieved some 400 of his drawings. This etching shows the unbearable conditions endured in the infirmary emphasised by the man in the foreground who has been reduced to skin-and-bones figure and who is forced to use a bedpan while divided from his fellow inmates by only a screen. This powerful and haunting image is one of ten in the Ben Uri Collection printed after the war using the original plate.