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Krystyna And The Butterfly In The Ghetto
Death is all around us, Pavel is dead in the concentration camp, but Krystyna escaped the sewers. All they wanted was freedom from Nazis but no, only because they were Jewish they were sentenced to death. In 1942 6 ½ million killed. Some of the similarities between Pavel and Krystyna was that they were both in the ghetto, I know this because in the butterfly it says “Butterflies don't live in here, In the ghetto.”Krystyna says When Daddy found out that there would be a liquidation of the Ghetto” , they both wanted freedom from the Nazis, I know this because in The Butterfly, Pavel was referring to a butterfly, how free the butterfly was while he was locked up in the concentration camp. And Krystyna wants freedom, I know this because she reported
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