The Butterfly
By Pavel Friedman
Pavel Friedman
Pavel Friedman wrote The Butterfly on June 4, 1942, at the age of 21, while he lived at the Thereisenstadt concentration camp. Friedman was a Jewish Czechoslovak who was born in Prague in 1921. On September 29, 1944, he died at the Nazi concentration camp in Auschwitz.
Annotated Poem
Work Cited
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Web. 9 Mar. 2015.
Tamara Kaplin