I Never Saw Another Butterfly: Children's Drawings and Poems from Terezin Concentration Camp 1942-1944

ISBN 10: 1417644796 ISBN 13: 9781417644797

Publisher: Turtleback Books, 1994

Synopsis

For use in schools and libraries only. A selection of children's poems and drawings reflecting their surroundings in Terez in Concentration Camp in Czechoslovakia from 1942 to 1944.

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From the Back Cover:

A total of 15,000 children under the age of fifteen passed through the Terezin Concentration Camp between the years 1942-1944; less than 100 survived. In these poems and pictures drawn by the young inmates of Terezin, we see the daily misery of these uprooted children, as well as their courage and optimism, their hopes and fears. The ghetto of Terezin (Theresienstadt), located in the hills outside Prague, was an unusual concentration camp in that it was created to cover up the Nazi genocide of the Jews. Billed as the "Fuhrer's gift to the Jews", this "model ghetto" was the site of a Red Cross inspection visit in 1944. With its high proportion of artists and intellectuals, culture flourished in the ghetto - alongside starvation, disease, and constant dread of transports to the death camps of the east. Every one of its inhabitants was condemned in advance to die. These innocent and honest depictions allow us to see through the eyes of the children what life was like in the ghetto. The children's poems and drawings, revealing maturity beyond their years, are haunting reminders of what no child should ever have to see. This expanded edition of I Never Saw Another Butterfly is published in cooperation with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.

About the Author:

Edited by HANA VOLVAKOVÁ (1904-1985), who was the only curator of the Central Jewish Museum to survive World War II. The authors/artists of the poems, letters, and drawings in I Never Saw Another Butterfly were the children of Terezin Concentration Camp. A total of 15,000 children under the age of 15 lived in the camp. Only 100 came back.

About this edition

• Publisher: Turtleback Books
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 1417644796
• ISBN 13: 9781417644797
• Binding: School & Library Binding
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 106
• Editor: Volavkova Hana