Canton High School Drama Presents...

I Never Saw Another Butterfly

Friday, March 15 and Saturday, March 16

7 p.m. in the CHS Auditorium

Tickets are $8 Students/Seniors, $10 Adults

From 1942 to 1944 over 15.000 Jewish children passed through the Terezin Concentration Camp.  Less than 100 survived.  Terezin was  a stopping-off place for hundreds of thousands on their way to the gas chambers of Auschwitz.  

The stories of the children who passed through Terezin remain in drawings and poems collected and published in the book I Never Saw Another Butterfly.   The appendix to I Never Saw Another Butterfly briefly notes the names of the children, the dates of their birth and transportation to Terezin.  For most of the children whose work appears in the book, the brief biography ends, “perished at Auschwitz…” 
 
But one child, Raja Englanerova, “after the liberation, returned to Prague.” This play is an imaginative creation of her story from documentary materials: poems, diaries, letters, journals, drawings and pictures.  -- Stephanie Shapiro, CHS Drama Director

Cast of I Never Saw Another Butterfly