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I Never Saw Another Butterfly: Children's Drawings and Poems from the Terezin Concentration Camp, 1942-1944 Paperback – March 15, 1994

by Hana Volavkova (Editor), Vaclav Havel (Afterword), Chaim Potok (Foreword),
4.9 4.9 out of 5 stars 455 ratings
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Fifteen thousand children under the age of fifteen passed through the Terezin Concentration Camp. Fewer than 100 survived. In these poems and pictures drawn by the young inmates, we see the daily misery of these uprooted children, as well as their hopes and fears, their courage and optimism. 60 color illustrations.
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    10 - 13 years
  2. Print length
    106 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Dimensions
    7.09 x 0.32 x 10.49 inches
  5. Publisher
    Schocken
  6. Publication date
    March 15, 1994
  7. ISBN-10
    0805210156
  8. ISBN-13
    978-0805210156
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sand children under the age of fifteen passed through the Terezin Concentration Camp. Fewer than 100 survived. In these poems and pictures drawn by the young inmates, we see the daily misery of these uprooted children, as well as their hopes and fears, their courage and optimism. 60 color illustrations.

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sand children under the age of fifteen passed through the Terezin Concentration Camp. Fewer than 100 survived. In these poems and pictures drawn by the young inmates, we see the daily misery of these uprooted children, as well as their hopes and fears, their courage and optimism. 60 color illustrations.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Schocken; 2nd edition (March 15, 1994)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 106 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0805210156
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0805210156
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 10 - 13 years
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.09 x 0.32 x 10.49 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.9 4.9 out of 5 stars 455 ratings

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Juliana
5.0 out of 5 stars A Book Worthy of its Contents
Reviewed in the United States on November 13, 2020
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Not only are the contents of this book touching and important, but the book is very high quality. The cover is a nice texture and sturdy even for a soft cover, and the pages are like thick, smooth magazine paper. The scans of the artwork are detailed and sensitively presented next to the poetry. The editors also included informative histories regarding the ghetto and the war as well as giving credit to a hero, Ms. Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, who provided the children with art supplies, encouragement, and comfort.

A lot can be learned from these children. It's important to respect and fight for the rights of the oppressed.
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morpheus
5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful and heartbreaking
Reviewed in the United States on June 24, 2023
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Every home should have this book and every person should read it. Especially young people!
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jverran
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful book
Reviewed in the United States on March 11, 2024
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Bought this gor my sister; great price, fast shipping, informative writing and photos.
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Lana Farney
5.0 out of 5 stars Heartbreaking
Reviewed in the United States on January 14, 2024
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Used poems from this book while teaching my sixth grade class about the Holocaust. My students were fascinated with these poems. Great addition to my unit.
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connie staples
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing photographs
Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2023
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I also used this book to teach a difficult topic.
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Sandy Carlson
5.0 out of 5 stars Truth as Children Show It
Reviewed in the United States on April 10, 2011
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[...]
Recently reading about the Houston Holocaust Museum's planned 2013 exhibition titled The Butterfly Project, I read for the first time Pavel Friedmann's poem The Butterfly" in which he remarks that he has seen no butterfly in the ghetto though some of the beauty of the natural world insists on itself even there. The ghetto is the Terezin Concentration Camp in Czechoslovakia. Terezin was a bizarre experiment of the Third Reich, which set it up as a place to hold Jewish artists, intellectuals, and German army veterans of World War I. To these Jews and to the world it presented this depraved and dirty ghetto as a gift to these Jews who had greatly to German culture. In face, the Germans even succeeded in fooling the Red Cross into believing the place was OK.Meanwhile, 15,000 childre passed through Terezin, but fewer than 100 survived. While they were in that hellish bastion of cruelty, these children were nevertheless blessed by the Vienna-born, Bauhaus-trained artist Friedl Dicker-Brandeis. Under her gentle direction and with the few art supplies shemanaged to hoard, many ofhtese childdren found a release for all that they were feeling as they encountered Nazi cruelty and awaited death every day.I Never Saw Another Butterflyexhibits these children's artwork, poems, and prose in the space of 106 pages. The book includes a catalog of the works that identifies the young artists' birth, deportation, and death dates.When the book arrived the other day, I decided I would not read the book until I coul read it in one sitting. The book deserves complete, uninterrupted attention. The innocence and honesty, truth and reality captured by these children create beauty where otherwise beauty could not take hold. Works of art on scraps of paper are the legacy of murdered children to the present. May we learn from them.<center>Hey, try to open up your heartTo beauty; go to the woods somedayAnd weave a wreath of memory there.Then if tears obscure your wayYou'll know how wonderful it isTo be alive.--Anonymous, 1941,</center>

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Just T
5.0 out of 5 stars The Butterfly Project
Reviewed in the United States on March 15, 2008
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This collection of works is mostly by children who were imprisoned in the Terezin ghetto during the Holocaust. Their writing is hauntingly and painfully honest, devastating, and heartbreaking. Yet, with death all around them, these children dared to hope and dream of a day they would leave the ghetto and return to their normal lives. The adults who taught them hoped the same things. It makes it all the more difficult to take in when one reads the appendix where details are given of the outcomes for these children, the vast majority of whom perished at Auschwitz and other death camps. It makes their hope that much more poignant and breathtaking. Of the 15,000 children to dwell within its barbed wire fences, only 100 children walked out. I highly encourage anyone to read this account of the Holocaust, this true and touching monument to these children and their teachers.
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calligrapherdi
5.0 out of 5 stars Hauntingly beautiful book
Reviewed in the United States on October 10, 2019
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As an educator who includes the Holocaust in her curriculum, this books of poems is truly a MUST HAVE! Not only do the poems tell of the authenticity of children in a death camp but the magnificence of finding beauty amid the ashes of their lives or the ashes that consumed their lives, At the end, you read what happened to each author. That's when it starts to GET REAL for today's children and their hearts are broken for these unknown children. Many cry. I surely do. 5 STARS!
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Smileyface
5.0 out of 5 stars Very Moving
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 19, 2022
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I think we owe it to these children to read this book and see their drawings read their poems ..its just heartbreaking and unfair in the extreme how these innocent little ones lives were taken from them..15,000 children passed through Terezin Concentration Camp less than 100 survived .
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Bre
5.0 out of 5 stars Inspiring little book
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 3, 2021
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A really lovely presentation of a horrendous time in man's history. Drawings by the children who were in Terezin concentration Camp accompanied by poems.
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michael_m
5.0 out of 5 stars The saddest book you will ever read
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 29, 2001
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How does one review something like this? I only wish I could give it 6 stars, or 10 or a million.
The Holocaust - one of the most incomprehensible and evil acts of the 20th century - like all terrible events is something that we don't like to talk about, in the same way that we turn the TV over when reports showing famime and death in third-world countries come on. This book does not show the horrors explicitly - it shows them through the poems and artwork of the children at Terezin Concentration Camp. Terezin was a stopping point where jews were sent before being sent to Auschwitz. The book tells us that of the 15,000 children sent to Terezin, only 100 survived.
A person would have to have a heart of stone to read this book without the tears flowing. Especially when you see things like the drawing of Jana Hellerova, who was sent to Terezin at the age of 5, and died in Auschwitz at the age of 6.
The title of the book comes from one of the poems in the book, which is deeply, deeply moving. Another remarkable piece of work is 'Terezin' by Hanus Hachenburg who was 13 and died in Auschwitz at 14.
The World must never let this happen again.
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Martin J. Stanton
5.0 out of 5 stars Moving
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 16, 2007
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I bought this a few days after returning from Terazin itself. I was moved to tears when I was there and this little book made me cry again. The fact that these words and images came from the minds of small innocent children makes it all just too difficult to understand how human beings could to do what they did to others during those awful days in the middle of the last century, (i.e. still within living memory).
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Mary
5.0 out of 5 stars Very touching poems when you consider these children's horrific situation ...
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 15, 2016
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Very touching poems when you consider these children's horrific situation and for them to be given an opportunity to share their experience was very moving opportunity to expess their feelings
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