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 Spring-Ford Intermediate School students last spring created colorful butterflies to be sent to Houston’s Holocaust Museum in memory of the 1.5 million children who died during the Holocaust.
The museum asked schools to send in butterflies, hoping to collect 1.5 million to honor those children. The project coincided with Days of Remembrance, the national event to remember those lost during the Holocaust. It took place from April 27 to May 4.
The butterfly memorial is based on a poem called “I Never Saw Another Butterfly,” which was written by poet Pavel Friedmann, whose family was forced to leave his home and live in a ghetto during the Holocaust. He died in Auschwitz in 1944. Fifth-graders learned about the poem and the butterfly memorial through their class reading assignments.
While students in all art classes made butterflies, some classes decided to make extra butterflies to send to the museum. The students’ butterflies were displayed throughout the school hallways before being collected and sent to Houston.
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