I cannot describe in how many pieces this book broke my heart. And yet, I cannot recommend it highly enough. I Never Saw Another Butterfly is one of the most vital and most gut-wrenching works one can read on the Holocaust. Even if you were to read nothing else this year, I still urge you to read this book from the first page to the last; read the introductions and the epilogues, read the endnotes too as you read each child's poem and see each one of their drawings. Out of 15,000 children in Terezin Camp, fewer than 100 survived and no child under the age of 14 survived. Let that sink in for a moment... FIFTEEN THOUSAND children, FOURTEEN THOUSAND AND NINE HUNDRED (14,900) murdered within 2-3 years, most under the age of 14. One of those 15,000 children was 12 year old Eva whose poem you'll see in this book among the works of several other children. Eva expressed her fear, but also her desire to live. Her love for life wasn't heard by her tormentors. She was one of the 14,900 children who died. Only her poem survived for us to remember the atrocities of the few because the many chose to do nothing long enough for so many to die before any help arrived.