The Last Butterfly of the Ghetto - A Memoir of the Holocaust in Two Voices

Novel in which the narrator, a journalist, reports about the difficult writing process of a novel, the subject of which is the true, heartrending story of Renate Krauz, a woman who immigrated to Ecuador in 1945. As a young Jewish orphan, she survived the Theresienstadt Ghetto and managed to escape the gas chambers. The journalist alternates his own report with fragments of the story that she told him. He also expresses his own emotions, doubts, criticism and philosophical contemplations regarding the Nazi’s ‘Final Solution’, and his compassion for the Holocaust victims. The journalist´s tale is laced with dialogues, which results in a fairly complex narrative, using white spaces and typography to distinguish between the different elements: Renate’s life study is printed in italics. All chapters start with a question, statement or contemplation in bold print. This is an intriguing, captivating novel that gives us food for thought in an original way. Very suitable for making children from the age of twelve aware of the Holocaust.