I've written in the past about my volunteering at the Charlotte JCC"s "Butterfly Project", where 5th through 12th grade school children come to learn about the 1.5 million children who died in the Holocaust.
Yesterday, a group of volunteers, including Holocaust survivor Irving Bienstock, who is an important part of the Butterfly Project, were invited to visit the Community School of Davidson's Annual Holocaust Museum Exhibition. This incredible project was started 11 years ago by the school's art teacher, and is recreated and added to each year over a four month period from February through May by the students of that year's 6th grade.
The docents for our visit were two 6th graders, Leah, 13, and Addie, 12. These two remarkable young women led a group of 5, of us for close to an hour and a half, through each of the exhibit rooms, explaining what we were seeing and answering our questions. It was a memorable, and very emotional, experience.
I am posting just a few of the photos from our visit.
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| The entrance to the exhibition |
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| Our docents, Leah, 13, and Addie, 12 |
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| Setting the stage. |
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Addie explains as Leonard Marco & Irving
Bienstock listen. |
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Footprints in a freight car carrying Jews to
a concentration camp |
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| 125 people who have traveled in a car this size. |
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| The art work of the children at Terezin |
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| Butterflies are the symbol of hope. |
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