Holocaust Museum Butterfly Project

Please see Rachels's article on this in the SB blog posted June 27th. You can also read about The Butterfly Project here.

I thought this would make an excellent swap as it will be easy and inexpensive to mail.

There are 2 parts to this swap:

• Please make one 2 dimensional butterfly (according to the website's criteria) and send it to the address provided on the website. Be sure to indicate that you belong to Swap-bot.

AND

• Please send your swap partner via snail mail a photo/scan/coloured photocopy of your butterfly, along with a note describing the materials/techniques you used and how you felt while making it.

I am opening this swap to everyone in the hope that no one will flake on such a wonderful and bittersweet project.

Thanks to everyone who joins!

The Butterfly

The last, the very last,
So richly, brightly, dazzlingly yellow.
Perhaps if the sun’s tears would sing
against a white stone....
Such, such a yellow
Is carried lightly ’way up high.
It went away I’m sure
because it wished
to kiss the world good-bye.
For seven weeks I’ve lived in here,
Penned up inside this ghetto.
But I have found what I love here.
The dandelions call to me
And the white chestnut branches in the court.
Only I never saw another butterfly.
That butterfly was the last one.
Butterflies don’t live in here, in the ghetto.

~ Pavel Friedman, June 4, 1942
Born in Prague on January 7, 1921.
Deported to the Terezin Concentration Camp on April 26, 1942.
Died in Aushchwitz on September 29, 1944.