Date/Time
Date(s) - 05/01/2016
10:00 am - 12:30 pm

Location
Jewish Community Center of Charlotte

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Join Temple Kol Ami for an incredible experience. In remembrance of Yom HaShoah, we will participate in the very moving and educational program about the Holocaust and tolerance. This program is FREE for TKA Religious School students and only $5 for everyone else. It is open to the community at large. Please RSVP to yorksynagogue@gmail.com as space is limited.
MORE ABOUT THE BUTTERFLY PROJECT:
The Butterfly Project originated at the San Diego Jewish Academy, in San Diego, California. It was inspired by the film documentary Paper Clips and a poem, The Butterfly, written by Pavel Friedmann, a young man who died in the Auschwitz concentration camp.

The project is meant to memorialize the 1.5 million Jewish youth who perished during the Holocaust and to help combat anti-Semitism, indifference, and Holocaust denial through educational workshops that personalize the history for each participant. The goal of the project is to create 1.5 million ceramic butterflies, worldwide.

Beginning in 2008, the Levine Jewish Community Center began work on its own Butterfly Project. For three years, volunteers led more than 60 schools (public and private), civic and religious organizations in the creation and painting of ceramic butterflies, as well as interactive educational workshops about the Holocaust and tolerance in today’s world. In May, 2011, on Yom Ha’Shoah, the Day of Remembrance, those who had worked so hard for years dedicated the Children’s Holocaust Memorial Sculpture, located in the Margaret & Lou Schwartz Butterfly Garden of Remembrance and Hope in Shalom Park. The sculpture by Paul Rousso incorporates over 2,700 ceramic butterflies made by the Charlotte community.
A two and one-half hour experience that includes a Holocaust survivor’s story (in most cases a survivor will be available to tell his/her story and to answer questions by participants).

· An artistic, educational, hands-on project that remembers some of the 1.5 million children who perished in the Holocaust; each participant will paint a ceramic butterfly that memorializes a specific child whose name they will learn during the Workshop.

· A visit to the Margaret & Lou Schwartz Butterfly Garden, during which the poem that inspired the project will be read and participants will be provided time to reflect.

· Participation in a group discussion in which participants will be inspired to build bridges of communication, understanding and respect for all people.

The Workshops are primarily geared towards 5th through 12th grade students,