I Never Saw Another Butterfly

I Never Saw Another Butterfly

Cover of I Never Saw Another Butterfly
Author	Hana Volavková
Language	English originally in Czech
Genre	History
Publisher	Schocken
Publication date	March 15, 1994
Publication place	Czechoslovakia
Media type	Print (Paperback)
Pages	128
ISBN	0-8052-1015-6
OCLC	26214051

I Never Saw Another Butterfly: Children's Drawings and Poems from Terezin Concentration Camp, 1942–1944 is a collection of works of art and poetry by Jewish children who lived in the concentration camp Theresienstadt. They were created at the camp in secret art classes taught by Austrian artist and educator Friedl Dicker-Brandeis. The book takes its title from a poem by Pavel Friedmann, a young man born in 1921 who was incarcerated at Theresienstadt and was later killed at Auschwitz. The works were compiled after World War II by Czech art historian Hana Volavková, the only curator of the Jewish Museum in Prague to survive the Holocaust.^[1] Where known, the fate of each young author is listed. Most died prior to the camp being liberated.^[2] The original Czech edition was published in 1959 for the State Jewish Museum in Prague; the first English edition was published in 1964 by the McGraw-Hill Book Company.