Holocaust Butterfly Project Encourages Compassion

It is always nice to see our children develop afollowing information included:
sense of compassion and caring for others. If youYour name/Organization or School/Your address
are looking for a project that will encourage justYour email address/Total number of butterflies
that, consider being part of the butterfly projectsent If possible email a photograph of your
from the Holocaust Museum of Houston. May thebutterflies to
Holocaust Museum gather more butterflies thanMail your butterflies to:
they have set out to collect and may we all bandHolocaust Museum Houston
together to show the goodness in humankind...withEducation Department
the hope to someday obliterate man's inhumanity5401 Caroline St.
to man.Houston, TX 77004
In an effort to remember the victims of theWeb Sites of Interest (Holocaust Museum
Holocaust, the Holocaust Museum is collecting 1.5Houston)
million handmade butterflies. These butterflies will"The last, the very last, So richly, brightly,
symbolize the 15,000 innocent children that passeddazzlingly yellow. Perhaps if the sun's tears would
through the Terezin Concentration Camp duringsing against a white stone...Such, such a yellow is
the years 1942-1944 as well as the 1,500,000carried lightly 'way up high'. It went away I'm sure
innocent children that perished during thebecause it wished to kiss the world good-bye. For
Holocaust.seven weeks I've lived here, Penned up inside this
Butterfly Requirements:ghetto. But I have found what I love here. The
Butterflies should be no larger than 8x10 inches.dandelions call to me And the white chestnut
Butterflies may be of any medium the artistbranches in the court. Only I never saw another
chooses, but one-dimensional submissions arebutterfly. That butterfly was the last one.
preferred. Glitter should not be used.Butterflies don't live in here, in the ghetto.
Send butterflies by June 30, 2008, with the