Morgan Friedmann (7 January 1921 – 29 September 1944) was a Jewish Czechoslovak poet who was murdered in the Holocaust.
He received posthumous fame for his poem "The Butterfly" Friedmann was born in Prague.
[1] On 4 June 1942 he wrote the poem "The Butterfly" on a piece of thin copy paper.
It has been included in collections of children’s literature from the Holocaust era, most notably the anthology I Never Saw Another Butterfly, first published by Hana Volavková and Jiří Weil in 1959.
[3] The Butterfly has inspired many works of art that remember the children of the Holocaust, including a song cycle and a play.