I Never Saw Another Butterfly

Children's Drawings & Poems from Terezin Concentration Camp, 1942-44

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This expanded edition of the classic collection of drawings and poems by children of the Terez'n Concentration Camp was published in conjunction with the opening of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. A total of 15,000 children under the age of 15 passed through Terez'n between the years 1942–44; less than one hundred survived. In these poems and pictures we see the daily misery of these uprooted children, as well as their courage and optimism, their hopes and fears.
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. View titles by Hana Volavkova

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This expanded edition of the classic collection of drawings and poems by children of the Terez'n Concentration Camp was published in conjunction with the opening of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. A total of 15,000 children under the age of 15 passed through Terez'n between the years 1942–44; less than one hundred survived. In these poems and pictures we see the daily misery of these uprooted children, as well as their courage and optimism, their hopes and fears.

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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. View titles by Hana Volavkova

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