The Virginia Holocaust Museum, through education, the arts, and memorial-making, continues its successful partnership with The Butterfly Project, a global initiative honoring the 1.5 million children murdered during the Holocaust.
“The Butterfly Project’s programming is a gentle approach to teaching a difficult topic. It focuses on the power one person has to make a difference in today’s challenging world,” The Butterfly Project website states. “Using history’s darkest time to teach students about hope, resilience and kindness, helping them develop the courage to stand up to injustice in today’s world.”
During the 2024-2025 school year, the Virginia Holocaust Museum in Richmond offered butterfly kits at no cost to classrooms across all eight regions of Virginia, reaching more than 10,000 students. The Butterfly Project’s kits, ideal for 4th – 12th grade students, include biography cards of children murdered during the Holocaust, ceramic butterflies, glaze and paint brushes. The kits provide a ready-made and interactive activity to supplement a Holocaust curriculum…