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Title: I Never Saw Another Butterfly: Children's Drawings and Poems from Terezin Concentration Camp 1942-1944 by Hana Volavkova ISBN: 0-8052-1015-6 Publisher: Schocken Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.86 (14 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: I Never Saw Another Butterfly
Comment: The drawings and poems of the children of the Terezin Concentration Camp are rather surprising. It is not surprising that the works of the children are sad, yet it is amazing the amount of hope and faith that they hold. Some of the children speak of the day that they will be free and the faith of their religion that helps them through the day.
The children also tell of sunny days and times when they are playing with the friends that they make. I was taken-back by the way the children spoke of cheerful and happy experiences. One would expect that a book of this nature would reflect the dark and ugly side of Nazi concentration camps. Though there are some mentions of starvations and other atrocities that the members of the camp faced in their daily struggle to survive in hope that they will one day see their freedom.
The drawings of flowers, unity and more peaceful and tranquil times show the children's amazing talent. The bright watercolors that are used reinforces the hope and good with that the children still possess, even though confined in a place that has little more to offer than pain and suffering.
Despite the perceived despair the book should offer I found ...I Never Saw Another Butterfly... a bright spot that has emerged from the history of Nazi concentration camps.
Rating: 5
Summary: Tales from the children who didn't come back.
Comment: 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.
Rating: 5
Summary: Beautiful Memories
Comment: ...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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Title: Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust by Eve Bunting, Stephen Gammell ISBN: 0827603258 Publisher: Jewish Publication Society of America Pub. Date: 01 July, 1989 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Fireflies in the Dark: The Story of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis and the Children of Terezin by Susan Goldman Rubin ISBN: 0823414612 Publisher: Holiday House Pub. Date: 01 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The Children We Remember by Chana Byers Abells ISBN: 0688063713 Publisher: Greenwillow Pub. Date: 18 August, 1986 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Number on My Grandfather's Arm by David A. Adler, Rose Eichenbaum ISBN: 0807403288 Publisher: Urj Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1987 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: I Never Saw Another Butterfly (One Act) by Celeste Raspanti ISBN: 0871293196 Publisher: Dramatic Pub Co Pub. Date: 01 July, 1980 List Price(USD): $4.25 |
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