Untitled by alena synkova biography

I’d like to go away alone
Where there are other, nicer people
Somewhere into the far unknown
There, where no one kills another
Maybe more of us
A thousand strong
Will reach this goal
Before too long

Czechoslovakian teenager Alena Synkova penned this poem, “I’d Like to Go Alone,” while confined at the Terezin (Theresienstadt) concentration camp, a ghetto in the hills outside of Prague that was home to 15, children between and Synkova was one of fewer than children who passed through Terezin to survive the Nazi genocide.

Synkova’s poem and other drawings and poems created by the children of Terezin are compiled and preserved in "I Never Saw Another Butterfly," first published in for the State Jewish Museum in Prague and later published in the United States in cooperation with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.

Using a grant she received three years ago to support Holocaust education,