I Never Saw Another Butterfly: Children's Drawings and Poems from the Terezin Concentration Camp (1959 @1959 Volavková), anthology

2nd ed. (1993)

I Never Saw Another Butterfly: Children's Drawings and Poems from the Terezin Concentration Camp (1959) is the English ed. of an anthology of children's drawings made by children of the Terezin Concentration Camp in the years 1942-1943. Originally published in Czech (1959)

Abstract

"A selection of children's poems and drawings reflecting their surroundings in Terezín Concentration Camp in Czechoslovakia from 1942 to 1944. 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."--Publisher description.

Editions

Published in Praha: Museo Statale Ceco, 1959). Originally published in Czech (Prague: Museo statale ceco, 1959). Reprinted in New York: McGraw-Hill, 1962, and 1978. 2nd enlarged ed. by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (New York : Schocken Books, 1993).

Also published in German (1959), French (1959), Hebrew (1963), and other languages