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These are the links for all 3 poems. Anything highlighted in yellow is the poems higher purpose in sharing the poem. Also, the tags are in order.

Terezin:

-TEREZIN: This was one of the nicest (if you could call it that) concentration camps which is why most of the poetry by children comes from Terezin. Because of the Red Cross that came to inspect it, they put up a school, thus creating a place for writing and art to be made. This allowed the expression of thought of how things were there. The camps, if the chidlren survived them, altered them physially and mentally, completely changing their lives forever.

Sophia - Great details and some really thoughtful analysis you've shared for "Terezin" but I wonder if you needed to keep thinking about the poet's higher purpose. It seems that the poet is saying he'll never be a child again, even if he was 'a little child' only three years before. How has he changed? Be specific.

-thirty-thousand souls: this is a picture of some of the children being sent to the camp.Even though Terezin was not a death camp many people perished there not from gunfire or being gassed, but from hunger and malnutrition. this included many chilren. Those who tried to live in the ghetto had to handle themselves, giving the feeling of losing childhood. []

Excellent images and photos -barbed wire: **//–noun//** Also called barbwire. taken from [] As the defention shows, the wire was used to keep in livestock. This shows how little the Nazi's valued the lives of the inmates there.
 * barbed wire**
 * a wire or strand of wires having small pieces of sharply pointed wire twisted around it at short intervals, used chiefly for fencing in livestock, keeping out trespassers, etc. ||

-little child: this is a child who was starved in a concentration camp, not from WW2 but who suffered the same effects. []

-they see: The horrors at any concentration camp for some could be too painful to bear. they would see death and pain, feel anger, sadness, and hunger. The picture is a group of children at the fence of Aushwitz-Birkneu death camp. They all have shorn hair and are very dirty, a thing Nazi's did to make the inmates seem less human. To simply arrive at Aushwitz would to already have gone through being shipped in a closed train car with about 100 people for days on end and then being seperated from anyone you loved as your clothes were taken and u were tattooed with a number. []

they'll sleep again...: Imagine you are in a ghetto, you are starving, sick, and completely discouraged that you will ever leave. The only way you can really escape for now is sleep. If you woke up to realize that everything was still horrible around you, given the option would you go back to sleep just to get away from it again?

The Butterfly:

-The Butterfly: Play this song as you read **The Butterfly.** This song I feel relates to the emotion in the poem because it's a sad song about how things aren't going great (I could stand here for hours, just to ask God the question, is everyone here make believe, with a tear in His voice, He said, "son that's the question", does this deafening silence mean nothing to no one but me?) but there is hope (and we've been sitting here for hours, all alone and in the dark, so let me think of a word it, is it too soon to say perfect?). this just similar emotins to the poem. //**You Be the Anchor That Keeps My Feet on the Ground, I'll Be the Wings thats Keeps Your Heart in the Clouds**// by: Mayday Parade []

-kiss the world good-bye: This I think is a way of saying, to die happily. This I think was probably seen as the easiest way out for many people in death camps. Most died in painful ways like being beaten to death or being shot. This is a link though not as proffesional as some sites, summarizes a day of life in Auschwitz. Unfortunately though, even if the children surrived the trip to Auschwitz, many were killed once they got there, along with the old and sick who would not be any help with work the Nazi's forced upon all the inmates. Only teenagers and young adults were kept for being worked to death. [] I never saw another butterfly: No children were kept at death camps for helping with the work, every single one was instantly gassed or shot. Only in ghettos did they have a chance of survival, which was still a very slim chance. Disease and starvation killed thousands every single day. One can asume with people dying around you, one would lose hope of living through the ordeal. This is a video from a concentration of all the bodies. Especailly in camps where they used the inmates for medical experiments, such as the effects of the body with diseases, cuts, or lack of certain organs. I couldn't make myself watch more then two minutes so I'm sorry if anything horrible happens after that. []

Sophia - Great, though brutal to watch, links for this poem. The song is an excellent choice, and truly highlights the different ways kids and adults look at horrible events happening to them: the kids desperately need someone to care for them. The above paragraph seems confused, though. It focuses more on that link then identifying the poet's purpose. It seems to me that the poet is remembering the last butterfly he saw, and realizing that the last bit of traditional beauty is gone - do the dandelions take the butterfly's place. Do the kids have to find beauty in the horrors around them? The child seems to wonder if he will be the last child, just like he saw the last butterfly. Your analysis below begins to dig at his highest purpose more fully.

butterfly: Think of how beautiful a butterfly is. Imagine seeing one after you've goen through many long and hard ordeals, the hope it would inspire to keep going. But at the same time, you can wonder, after all of this how can there still be beauty in this word? this is a picture of a butterfly I find very pretty to go along with this. []

-ghetto: the ghetto was not the best place to be. Even worse thought were camps like Bergen-Belsen, which just left people in a contained area and they had to fend for themselves. One would have to get used to death and benifit from the loss of others to get things such as there clothes or spot where they slept so that they could live. The same stituation applied in any Nazi ruled area. As pictured, a child walks by a row of dead bodies at Belsen. []

In Terezin:

a new chid comes: The Nazis wanted to be efficient and not spend any extra time or money on the Jews and various other groups they were prejudice against. There for when transporting them, they crammed over 100 in a standard train boxccar for days on end. This was the method of transportation to bring all inmates to camps. []

I've got to stay?: A point I keep stressing in this project is most children did NOT survive the Holocaust. Statiscally, only 6 to 11% of Jewish children lived and those that made the record were the ones that made it far enough to be recorded. When getting off of the boxcars that transported them there, most old, young, and weak looking were instantly taken to the gas chambers and they weren't even registered and tattooed. The attachment is a picture of the inside of a gas chamber. []

bedbug: **bedbug** bed·bug (běd'bŭg') //n.// A wingless, odorous insect with a flat, reddish body that infests dwellings and bedding and feeds on human blood

This was a word I knew but wasn't sure of the meaning so I looked it up on dictionary.com. -Here in Terezin, life is hell: In any Nazi concentration camp life was hell to put it simply. In my opinion, this was one of the worst even though the living style was easier minus the lack of food. It was so bad because the Red Cross came to check on the camp multiple times and the Nazi's would dress everything up to make it look better. As soon as they were gone, it would be taken away from the inmates and the majority would be then sent off to death camps. It would be torture for me to be so close to feeling like a normal life then for it all to be gone. The article attached describes the visit of the Red Cross. [] -when I'll go home again, I can't yet tell: I tagged this without a link because I just want the reader to think about this. Over 1600 children were sent to the camp Terezin, less then 200 of them survived the war. A child doesn't understand that the bad guys are so bad, that they would really force them to sleep on the ground covered in bugs and eat rotten food. It's not a style of life anyone could get used to living. It allters their lives forever, how ever long that may be considering the genocide around them.

Sophia - Another haunting piece of writing. Your paragraph above explores the poem more fully than your highlighted paragraph - more than anything this poem seems to identify the shock and surprise facing the kids when they arrived: how could this happen to me, they seem to think. Good question.