Jirka polak poems about family
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Poems - I Never Saw Another Butterfly
Poems - I Never Saw Another Butterfly
A collection of poems from the Terezin Concentration Camp
For seven weeks Ive lived in here,
Penned up inside this ghetto.
But I have found what I love here.
The dandelions call to me
And the white chestnut branches in the court.
Only I never saw another butterfly.
That butterfly was the last one,
Butterflies dont live in here, in the ghetto.
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 (named Theresienstadt by the Germans), 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 Hitlers 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 hone
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Alena Munkova
Alena Munkova
Prague
Czech Republic
Interviewer: Zuzana Strouhova
Date of interview: October 2005-March 2006
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