La cultura ebraica

Pianificazione delle persecuzioni Progetto Madagascar Ufficio per l'emigrazione ebraica Leggi di Norimberga Operazione T4

Crisi economica e ascesa del nazismo L'economia arianizzata Trutzhain (città lager)

La ricerca della verità e dei colpevoli Processo di Hadamar 1945 Processo di Norimberga

Cinema e letteratura "Auschwitz" di Guccini "Train de vie" "I never saw another butterfly"

I never saw another butterfly


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 good-bye.
For seven weeks I've 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 don't live in here,
in the ghetto.

Pavel Friedman

Pavel Friedmann was born in Prague on January 7, 1921. He was deported to Terezin on April 26, 1942 and later to Auschwitz, where he died on September 29, 1944.