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Auschwitz Memorial

7 January 1921 | A Czech Jew, Pavel Friedmann, was born in Prague.

Pavel was deported to Auschwitz from Theresienstadt ghetto on 29 September 1944. He did not survive.

In Theresienstadt ghetto in 1942 he wrote a poem "Butterfly". Read it below.

A studio portrait photo of a young man in a suit.
A potem "The Butterfly" by Pavel Friedmann The last, the very last, So richly, brightly, dazzlingly yellow. Perhaps if the sun's tears would sing against a white stone... Such, such a yellow Is carried lightly ‘way up high. It went away I'm sure because it wished to kiss the world goodbye. For seven weeks I've lived in here, Penned up inside this ghetto But I have found my people here. The dandelions call to me And the white chestnut candles in the court. Only I never saw another butterfly. That butterfly was the last one. Butterflies don't live in here, In the ghetto.
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Jan 07, 2023, 05:55 PM·Public
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