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Opportunity Houston Magazine showcases The Butterfly Project in the Winter 2017 Issue on page 8/9. 

People visit the Holocaust Museum Houston and ask themselves, “How could this have happened?” How did so many people sit silently while their neighbors were targeted, taunted and taken away?

Could it happen again?

The Butterfly Project’s goal is to make sure it does not. And it starts with you: When you see a wrong being done, it is your duty to right it. It is your duty to be an upstander.

The Butterfly Project Commemorates Children Lost in the Holocaust

The Holocaust Museum Houston memorializes the 1.5 million children who died in the Holocaust with Taking Flight: The Butterfly Project, an exhibition of handmade butterflies crafted by children across the globe.

A crowd gathered as the Holocaust Museum Houston marked its 20th anniversary with a champagne reception at Neiman Marcus. The event was held to launch an exhibit developed with help from children across the globe. More than 1.5 million handmade butterflies were submitted to the museum from every continent except Antarctica to memorialize the 1.5 million children who were killed in the Holocaust. The result is “The Butterfly Project,” a series of six traveling cases with some of the more thoughtful and thought-provoking samples. 

Holocaust Museum Houston toasts 20-year anniversary with a VIP reception at Neiman Marcus featuring 1.5 million handmade butterflies.

The Holocaust Museum Houston celebrated its 20th anniversary with 150 VIPs and 1.5 million butterflies.

The Holocaust Museum Houston celebrated its 20th anniversary with 150 VIPs and 1.5 million butterflies.

In 1995, children from every continent except Antarctica started making handmade butterflies to send to the Holocaust Museum of Houston as part of The Butterfly Project. The project’s goal was to collect 1.5 million handmade butterflies commemorating each child who perished in the Holocaust. Local artist and photographer Syd Moen was selected to curate Taking Flight: The Butterfly Project, after an extensive search and review process conducted in cooperation with the Houston Arts Alliance.

The Holocaust Museum Houston celebrated its 20th anniversary with 150 VIPs and 1.5 million butterflies.
Neiman Marcus hosted the intimate champagne reception for longtime supporters, board members, and Holocaust survivors including Leisa Holland-Nelson, Heidi Gerger, Nancy Dinerstein, Crystal Ashby, Edith Mincberg, Bill Orlin, Ruth Steinfeld and Chaja Verveer.

Since 1995, children from every continent – with the exception of Antarctica – have submitted handcrafted butterflies to the museum in memory of the 1.5 million youth who perished during the Holocaust.

Holocaust Museum Houston toasts 20-year anniversary with a VIP reception at Neiman Marcus featuring 1.5 million handmade butterflies.

Holocaust Museum Houston’s latest exhibition highlights artistic efforts to represent 1.5 million people who perished during the war.

A SMALL COLLECTION OF HANDCRAFTED BUTTERFLY-INSPIRED ITEMS CREATED by children from all over the world is the centerpiece of Taking Flight: The Butterfly Project, the latest exhibition featured at the Holocaust Museum Houston. The project, made up of more than 1.5 million crafts over the past two decades, highlights the effort to honor and recognize the number of children who perished during the Holocaust.

A touching new exhibit is now available for the public to see. It consists of 1.5 million handmade butterflies, designed to commemorate the 1.5 million children who died in the Holocaust.

A famous poem reads, "Such a yellow is carried lightly 'way up high. It went away I'm sure because it wished to kiss the world good-bye."

The Holocaust Museum of Houston is celebrating its 20th anniversary.

>> That's right. That celebration includes kicking off a project 20 years in the making. The butterfly project is a collection of 1.5 billion handmade butterflies fromchildren around the world. It honors the children who died in the holocaust. The butterflies were createdusing an incredible array of materials from feather tossconcrete. This morning, students will reveal the project at breakfast with the butterflies, but first, a special preview was held at the Neiman Marcus at the galleria.

Humble High School International Baccalaureate students let their imagination take flight by participating in “The Butterfly Project.”

Approximately 35 Humble High IB students made the trip down to the Galleria Mall March 11 to participate in “Breakfast with the Butterflies” where they each had the opportunity to create their own butterflies and “release” The Butterfly Project.

ONE POINT FIVE MILLION people and EVERY CONTINENT (except Antartica). This project isn’t small. It has made it’s way around the globe, and now it’s back in Houston, where it all began.

I believe this project is one of the most important we have ever worked on—a great responsibility—and we need your help.

The Butterfly Project, launched by Holocaust Museum Houston, is a movement that connects humanity and hope through art. Since 1995, 1.5 million children from all over the world have created handmade butterflies to symbolize the lives of young people lost in the Holocaust.

About 1,200 paper butterflies are attached to the walls and ceiling of the Sinaloa Middle School library, but the display is no mere art project.

Each butterfly represents a child who died in the Holocaust.

History teachers Amy Allen and Jocelyn Werner have incorporated a lesson plan, crafted by the founders of the Holocaust Museum Houston, that provides a hands-on activity to help students learn about the atrocities faced by more than six million people over 70 years ago.

Houston is awash in butterflies. Drawn, decorated and inscribed by children from around the world, the small works of art commemorate the 1.5 million children who died in the Holocaust.

"Taking Flight: The Butterfly Project" at Holocaust Museum Houston teaches people about the past through art. In a way, it's a project that's been underway since 1995, when the museum began using its own curriculum centered on butterflies to help schoolchildren understand the effect of the Holocaust on its youngest victims and to fight intolerance of all forms.

Since 1995, children from every continent except Antarctica have brought or sent handmade butterflies to Holocaust Museum Houston as part of “The Butterfly Project,” an international effort to collect 1.5 million handmade butterflies to commemorate each of the 1.5 million children who perished.

Host Kevin Price, Co-Host Annette Monks, & Guest Kelly Zuniga discuss “The Holocaust Museum of Houston” which was built by actual Survivors! on this segment of the Price of Business.

What started as a lesson plan more than 20 years ago - a way to teach children about the Holocaust - has mushroomed into a worldwide phenomenon.

Students at Beth Yeshurun Day School made a memorial for the 1.5 million children killed in the Holocaust.

What started as a lesson plan more than 20 years ago, imagined by three Houston-area educators as a way to teach children about the Holocaust, has mushroomed into a worldwide phenomenon.

One-and-a-half million handmade butterflies are set to take flight in Houston – each one representing the life of an innocent child who was killed in the Holocaust.

A touching and artistic reminder of the Holocaust will soon be on display at the Galleria.

Holocaust Museum Houston will launch a tour of the handmade butterflies made by children from every continent except Antarctica.

At one time there were nearly 1,000 Holocaust survivors living the Houston area, according to the Holocaust Museum of Houston. Today that number has dwindled to 250.

On the 71st anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, they take a special moment to remember.

2016 is the Museum’s 20th anniversary. To commemorate that accomplishment, the Museum is proud to offer our community an exhibit 20 years in the making and with the participation of children on every continent except Antarctica.

Host Kevin Price, Co-Host Annette Monks, & Guest Kelly Zuniga discuss "The Holocaust Museum of Houston" which was built by actual survivors on this segment of the Price of Business.