A few days ago, while I was browsing the net I found a project underway called "The Butterfly Project" hosted by The Holocaust Museum Houston in Texas, USA.
The Holocaust Museum Houston is dedicated to educating people about the Holocaust, remembering the 6 million Jews and other innocent victims and honoring the survivors´ legacy.
The Butterfly Project mandate is to remember the 1.500.000 innocent children who perished as a result of he Holocaust by collecting 1.5 million handmade buterflies.
In Spring 2013, these butterflies will then become a break-taking exhibition to serve as a memory of this event.
The project is based on this poem
“The Butterfly”
The last, the very last,
So richly, brightly, dazzlingly yellow.
Perhaps if the sun’s tears would sing
So richly, brightly, dazzlingly yellow.
Perhaps if the sun’s tears would sing
against a white stone. . . .
Such, such a yellow
Is carried lightly ‘way up high.
It went away I’m sure because it wished to
Is carried lightly ‘way up high.
It went away I’m sure because it wished to
kiss the world good-bye.
For seven weeks I’ve lived in here,
Penned up inside this ghetto.
But I have found what I love here.
The dandelions call to me
And the white chestnut branches in the court.
Penned up inside this ghetto.
But I have found what I love here.
The dandelions call to me
And the white chestnut branches in the court.
Only I never saw another butterfly.
That butterfly was the last one.
Butterflies don’t live in here,
Butterflies don’t live in here,
in the ghetto.
- by Pavel Friedman
Pavel Friedmann was born in Prague on January 7, 1921. He was deported to Terezin on April 26, 1942 and later to Auschwitz, where he died on September 29, 1944.
I decided to participate sending my butterfly and you are invited to participate to.
If you want to learn more about this project here are a few links for more information:
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