The Butterfly Poem

Imagine your self trapped in a nightmare that you can’t get out of until it is over. Hate had token over and fear was everywhere. That’s what it was for seven-year old Krystyna Chiger and twenty three-year old Pavel Friedmann went through. Krystyna and Pavel were both forced to live in the dreadful ghetto in the year of 1941 because they were Jews. Around this time, the Jewish people were treated unfairly and had to suffer through devestating times. Krystyna and her family didn’t want to live in the ghetto and escaped by living in the nasty unpleasant sewers however, Pavel escaped in a sorrowful way. Pavel perished while living in the ghetto where he was forced to live by the Nazis. Krystyna lived down in the sewers with twenty other people for fourteen months and Pavel lived in the ghetto for seven weeks. However, the two Jews wrote a story/poem during the Holocaust which both were depressing. Krystyna wrote a autobiography during the Holocaust called “Krystyna’s story” and Pavel wrote a beautiful yet heartbreakking poem called “The Butterfly” and they both explain what it was like for them with similarities and differences betwee n the story/poem. …show more content…
For example, Krystyna explains how life is rough living in the sewers by explaining to the reader, “ We put all of our things over the stones and sat on top of