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I never saw another butterfly

• Childrens Drawings and Poems
• From the Terezin Concentration Camp
• 1942-1944

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What is Terezin?

• a Czech town, formed in 1780, nestled where two
  rivers meet
• surrounded by thick, octagon-shaped walls
• narrow streets joined at right angles
• homes dark and bleak
• huge gray barracks
• set in a serene world of meadows and low rolling
  hills and summer butterflies

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How did Terezin become a concentration camp in
1941?

• It was an attempt to make the Germans look
  humanitarian in the eyes of the Free World!
• created by Germans to solve an awkward problem
  they encounteredwhat to do with certain special
  categories of Jews
• the Nazis had no clearly formulated plans for
  the Jews of Europe
• Jews were prohibited from leaving Europe in 1941
  as the Nazis planned to kill every living Jew
• Terezin became a model ghetto to be inhabited
  and governed by the Jews

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Who was transported to Terezin?

• Privileged Jews
• Intellectuals and writers
• Actors, artists, composers and conductors
• Jews married to Aryans
• Veterans of the First World War
• Half-Jews
• Jews of all ages

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What actually went on inside the walls of Terezin?

• Men were separated from women and children
• It was forbidden to write home.
• Smoking was punished.
• Nobody was allowed to walk on pavement.
• Every uniformed person had to be saluted.
• There were no vehicles for transport.
• There was not enough fuel,
• food or water.
• The elderly died alone of dysentery.

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IMAGINE THIS!YOU NO LONGER HAVE THE RIGHT TO

• Sleep or eat
• Talk to anyone, anytime
• Play games, read, watch television
• Go anywhere, anytime
• Just hang out
• FOR NO REASON AT ALL!

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Did the children know that death lay waiting for
them? yes

• We stood in a long queue with a plate in our
  hand, into which they ladled a little warmed-up
  water with a salty or a coffee flavor.

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• We got used
• to sleeping
• without
• a bed.

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• We got used to undeserved slaps, blows, and
  executions.

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• We got accustomed to seeing people die
• in their own excrement,
• to seeing piled-up coffins full of corpses.
• -Peter Fischl, age 15

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Terezin Statistics, 1941-1945

• From 1941-1945, over 141,000 Jews entered into
  Terezin
• 33,456 died in the here in the ghetto
• 88,202 were transported to death camps in the
  East
• 16,832 remained by 1945
• Of the 15,000 children deported from here to
  Auschwitz100 survived.
• -none under the age of 14

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What did Terezin do to the children?

• that ghetto, the sunlight of the day and the
  terrors of the night, their dreamy remembrances
  of the past and their desolate encounters with
  the present
• Much of what it did to them we can see in the
  art they left behind.

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Who was Friedl Dicker-Brandeis?

• A highly sophisticated artist in Terezin
• Put her life at risk as she used art to help the
  children handle life in the ghetto
• Would tell stories and have children draw objects
  she mentioned
• Encouraged children to draw their concealed inner
  worlds and their tortured inner emotions
• Was deported to Auschwitz in 1944 and died

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The Butterfly-Pavel Friedmann, 1942

• For seven weeks Ive lived in here,
• Penned up inside this ghetto.
• But I have found what I love here.
• The dandelions call to me
• And the white chestnut branches in the court.
• Only I never saw another butterfly.
• That butterfly was the last one.
• Butterflies dont live in here,
• In the ghetto.

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• What was the fate of
• Pavel Friedmann
• -born on January 7, 1921
• -deported to Terezin on April 26, 1942
• -died in Auschwitz on September 29, 1944

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• Final Thoughts
• The last remaining Jews left Terezin on August
  17, 1945.
• Terezin has since returned to its tranquil
  surroundings. Virtually no trace remains of
  those nightmarish ghetto years.
• One sees the rolling hills, the gentle juncture
  of the two rivers, the Bohemian mountains.
• And butterflies.

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Now its your turn

• You will create a
• HOLOCAUST
• POETRY
• POWERPOINT
• PRESENTATION

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DIRECTIONS

• Page 1 Question to Ponder
• Page 2 Title, Poem, Author
• Page 3 Emotional Appeal
• Page 4 Figurative Language
• Page 5 Most Memorable Line
• Page 6 Message for Others
• Heres a sample

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• What if your house-
• your place of
• safety, memories,
• care-
• was deserted and lifeless in an instant?

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THIS OLD HOUSE

• Deserted here, the old house
• stands in silence, asleep.
• The old house used to be so nice,
• before, standing there,
• it was so nice.
• Now it is deserted,
• rotting in silence
• What a waste of houses,
• a waste of hours.
• -Franta Bass, died in Auschwitz at
  age 14

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• This poem expresses
  
• REFLECTION
• - it was so nice.
• DEPRESSION
• - deserted, standing in silence-
• ANGER
• - a waste of houses..

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FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

• PERSONIFICATION
• the old house stands in silence
• SENSORY IMAGERY
• Now it is deserted, rotting in silence-

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Most Memorable Line

• Now it is deserted,
• rotting in silence-
• the word rotting creates such a powerful image
  of the vacant house in a negative way, neglected.

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Frantas Message

• What a shame that a structure which
• once served a great purpose
• is now just an empty frame.
• What a shame to experience
• such loss for no real reason.
• What a shame.

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Project will be graded based on

• Assigned content (3 points/page)
• Spelling and grammar (2 points/page)
• Style (font/background/graphics) (2 points/page)
• Effects (transition/entrance/sound) (2
  points/page)
• Presentation (clarity/flow/attentiveness) (6
  points)
• Total Point Value 60 points

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• Good
• Luck!