From the Pages of Yedies

by ROBERTA NEWMAN

The 1960s marked a new era for public interest in the Holocaust. The trial of Adolf Eichmann in 1961 was the first trial to be televised internationally and drew large audiences in the United States.

In 1964, I Never Saw Another Butterfly, an anthology of poems and drawings by children in the Terezin (Theresienstadt) Concentration Camp, appeared in English translation (McGraw Hill). This Yedies article from December 1965 reports on a trip to YIVO by nuns from a Catholic school for women in Milwaukee who were engaged in creating a play based on the book.

Another play by the same name by Celeste Raspanti was first produced by the Milwaukee Playhouse in 1967. Interestingly, Raspanti, a playwright and university professor, is a former nun. Yedies has contacted her for comment and will post a follow-up report if more information is received.

Read the follow-up to this post.