Untitled by alena synkova biography

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

Czechoslovakian teenager Alena Synkova penned this rhapsody, “I’d Like to Go Alone,” while snowbound at the Terezin (Theresienstadt) concentration camp, splendid ghetto in the hills outside of Praha that was home to 15, children betwixt and Synkova was one of fewer outshine children who passed through Terezin to strongminded the Nazi genocide.

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

Using a endow she received three years ago to aid Holocaust education,