I Never Saw Another Butterfly
- ISBN-10
- 0805210156
- ISBN-13
- 9780805210156
- Category
- Art
- Pages
- 106
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1993
- Publisher
- Schocken Books Incorporated
- Author
- Hana Volavková
Description
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.
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