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I Never Saw Another Butterfly: Children's Drawings & Poems from Terezin Concentration Camp,1942-44 (Hardcover)

~ Hana Volavkova (Author)
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A total of 15,000 children under the age of 15 passed through Terezin from 1942 to 1944; less than 100 survived. In these poems and pictures (60 color illustrations) we see their daily misery, courage, hopes and fears.

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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Czech
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  • Reading level: Young Adult
  • Hardcover: 128 pages
  • Publisher: Schocken; 2 Exp Sub edition (March 23, 1993)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0805241159
  • ISBN-13: 978-0805241150
  • Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 7.2 x 0.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #473,384 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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36 of 37 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Tales from the children who didn't come back., April 11, 2003
By Rebekah Sue Harris (West Haven, CT USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: I Never Saw Another Butterfly (Paperback)
Terezin Concentration Camp held, between 1942 and 1944, fifteen thousand children under the age of fifteen years old, for various lengths of time, before the children were carted out to other camps to die. A few teachers came in with sparse quantities of art supplies, and they used art "lessons" as a way of offering art therapy. "I Never Saw Another Butterfly" is a representation of those surviving pictures, which are now housed at the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC, USA. Illustrating the pictures, as it were, are collections of poetry and prose, and excerpts from a few journals.

I wish I spoke Dutch (?) so that I could read contributor Helga Weissova's "Das Kunstlerische Schaffen" -- I'd like to see what else she has to say. I wish that Soña Spitzovã, who drew my favorite of the drawings ("Starlight In A Dark Room," page 53) hadn't died in Auschwitz before she was even fifteen years old.

The things these children saw! They noticed the trains, the transports. Helga Weissova did a painting of a woman, JUDE star on her clothing, whose hair was searched for lice. They also saw flowers in jelly jars on tables. They remembered their own beds.

I think that art exists, in part, to speak when we are no longer able to.

This book was purchased from my amazon.com wishlist. I think I'll be getting a copy for a friend who's in school to be an art therapist; I think she'll get a lot out of it.

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars I never saw another butterfly, May 31, 2002
By Whitney Bell (Pasadena, CA) - See all my reviews
I was recently in the play I never saw another butterfly. I played one of the children durning the holocaust. In the play I read a poem that was in the book I never saw another butterfly, and the poem brought me to tears. When our director brought in the actual book, and I read all of the other poems and saw all of the other drawings i was overwhelmed by the pain and struggle that was portrayed in the book. I hope that others are as lucky to read this book as i was.
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21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful Memories, May 31, 2002
By Heather Kendall (Athens, OH) - See all my reviews
This review is from: I Never Saw Another Butterfly (Paperback)
...I never saw another butterfly... is a book which holds a collection of children's drawings and poems that were created at the Terezin concentration camp from 1942-1944. In this moving book several children's works are displayed, taken from a much larger collection. The book begins by telling the background of the Terezin concentration camp and then it lays out numerous beautiful pictures along with many moving poems. At the end of the book a short summary is given in the epilogue and afterword about the works of the children. Also included in the book is a catalog of the poems and drawings, naming the authors if known, their dates of birth, and their dates of death.
...I never saw another butterfly... is a moving illustration of what it was like for a child to live in a concentration camp during WWII. The drawings often depict a life full of beauty and it seemed amazing to me that the children were able to, at this time, see all the beautiful things around them even though they were in the midst of death. The poems on the other hand often portray the longing of wanting to be in a safe place elsewhere, and they also relate more of the harsh reality of what was really going on at the concentration camps. The book is tied together through the contrast of the brightly colored paintings with the dim spirit of the poems. The reader will instantly be amazed at the talents of these young children, most under the age of 14, and at the same time feel a horrible sense of pity for these children, whom most perished in Auschwitz. The book is a wonderful and diverse collection of works, although there could have been a more diverse collection of authors included, instead of multiple works by the same author.
It is amazing to notice that some of the children who drew some of the pictures survived the war and even some have gone on to be artists today. This mere fact leaves the reader with a little bit of hope that the unforgettable memories of these children will forever be painted into the public, so that everyone can remember them in honor.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A great Holocaust teaching resource for both parents and educators
I came across this title whilst visiting the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. The title captured my interest "I never saw another butterfly: Children's Drawings and... Read more
Published 7 months ago by z hayes

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Read and Teaching Resource
I bought this book of poems to help me with a lesson plan I was creating on the Holocaust. After reading a couple of poems, I knew I had picked a great book. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Butterfly wings
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5.0 out of 5 stars The Butterfly Project
This collection of works is mostly by children who were imprisoned in the Terezin ghetto during the Holocaust. Read more
Published 24 months ago by Theresa Heumann

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book
This is a really good book. It was a great tool for teaching my daughter about the Holocaust. The best thing about the book is that you are seeing pictures and poetry that was... Read more
Published on December 11, 2007 by W. L. Huggins

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As a school teacher, I found a wonderful use for this book in my classroom. My 6th grade history class studies the Holocaust and was participating in the Houston Holocaust... Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars A masterpiece!
It is a historical masterpiece of creative resistance during a horrible period when part of mankind became monsters and trough this book we can see how children and adolescents... Read more
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