Terrific story'Harry Potter' Star Donates Eyeglasses to Holocaust Exhibition
I am personally touched by this news. What a beautiful idea for an exhibition and what a great way to get children, along with their parents, to see the exhibit.
As the daughter of Holocaust survivors who somehow survived as children, I'm always moved by stories like this one. Years ago as a teacher of immigrant children and working on a Borough wide Holocaust Memorial contest with them, I organized a class contest with my first graders to collect buttons. The goal was to collect as many as we could and make art trains out of them for an exhibition. (FYI this pre-dated the movie "Paper Clips" and yes, we won the contest!). I told the children a bit about the history, as much as a first grader could be expected to understand and the contest was on.
Could we collect 6 million buttons to commemorate all the people? After a week or two it was obvious to them we couldn't. Could we collect 1 million for the 1 million children who perished? By counting one at a time and collecting painstakingly it was obvious to the children that the number was too overwhelming.
Much too overwhelming.
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