Some of our butterflies pose outside the administration building.
The last project of the year for grades six and seven was the Butterfly Project.
“In an effort to remember the 1.5 million children who perished in the Holocaust, the Holocaust Museum of Houston is collecting 1.5 million butterflies. The butterflies will comprise an exhibition scheduled for Spring 2013.” See butterflyproject@hmh.org.
Our butterflies will make their way to the musuem this summer to become part of this collection to honor these children.
Students learned about - Artisit and teacher Friedl Dicker Brandeis.
"I remember thinking in school how I would grow up and would protect my students from unpleasant impressions, from uncertainty, from scrappy learning," Friedl Dicker Brandeis wrote to a friend in 1940.
Dicker-Brandeis and her husband were deported to the Terezín "model ghetto" in December 1942. She packed the two suitcases she was allowed to bring, full of art supplies. During her time at Terezín, she gave art lessons and lectures. She helped to organize secret education classes for the children of Terezín. She saw drawing and art as a way for the children to understand their emotions and their environment.
In September 1944, Brandeis was transported to Auschwitz; Dicker-Brandeis volunteered for the next transport to join him. But before she was taken away, she gave to Rosa Engländer, the chief tutor of Girls's Home L 410, two suitcases with 4,500 drawings. F. Dicker-Brandes died in Birkenau on October 9, 1944.[Her husband Pavel, survived.After the war, Willy Groag, the director of the Girl's home L 410 brought the suitcases with children's drawings to the Jewish Community in Prague. Many of these drawings and children's writing were published in the book I Never Saw Another Butterfly.
*The above is from Wikipedia
