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

U. S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

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ISBN 10: 0805241159 ISBN 13: 9780805241150

Casa editrice: Pantheon Books, 1993

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A selection of children's poems and drawings reflecting their surroundings in Terezâin Concentration Camp in Czechoslovakia from 1942 to 1944.

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and poems by the children of Terezin are among the most poignant documents of the Holocaust. This expanded edition of the unforgettable collection I Never Saw Another Butterfly was occasioned by the loan of the children's art by the State Jewish Museum in Prague to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., for exhibition and for this book.

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 and of a propaganda film produced by the Nazis. Some elderly Jews even paid to enter its protective ghetto walls. With its high proportion of artists and intellectuals, culture flourished in the ghetto -- alongside starvation, disease, and constant dread of the continuous transports to the death camps of the east. Every on

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Book by Volavkova Hana

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• Editore: Pantheon Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0805241159
• ISBN 13: 9780805241150
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 106
• Redattore: Volavkova Hana