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Holocaust Remembrance Day: the poems of the children of Terezin

Design of a child of Terezin

Terezin.

Terezin is a village 60 km from Prague. E 'became notorious because it was turned into a ghetto where they were Jewish children gathered before being sorted into different camps. In the ghetto of Terezin concentration was the highest number of prisoners-children, including babies. The children of Terezin write mostly poetry. Of the 15,000 children passed through the Terezin camp if they survived less than a hundred: most of them died during 1944 in the gas chambers at Auschwitz.

BARBED WIRE


On a hot red sunset,
under gl'ippocastani flowered
the square of yellow sand,
last days are all alike,
beautiful as the trees bloom.
It 's the world smiles
and I want to fly. But where?
A barbed wire prevents
that flowers bloom in here.
I can not fly.
not want to die.


Peter, jew boy killed by the Nazis in the ghetto of Terezin



THE BUTTERFLY


The last, the very last,
a yellow so intense, so
absolutely yellow,
as a tear of the sun when it falls upon a rock
white
so yellow, so yellow!
last
flew in high light, hovered
safe
to kiss her last world.
few days
is already my seventh week
ghetto: I have found my
here and here they call me the flowers of rue
chestnut and white candlestick
in courtyard.
But here I have not seen any butterfly.
That was the last the last time:
the butterflies do not live in the ghetto.


Pavel Friedman (1921 - 1944), Terezin.