Hope and remembrance remain with you.
Our Programming
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.
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. Sharing personal stories from Holocaust Survivors and families, painting ceramic butterflies to honor the 1.5 million children killed in the Holocaust, and creating art installations as reminders for courage, justice, remembrance, and hope. Why the butterfly? The Butterfly Project pays tribute to the poem, “The Butterfly,” written by a young prisoner at the Terezin concentration camp. Butterflies are beautiful, fragile and resilient and represent transformation and freedom.
471,754
butterflies painted to date
Our Mission
The Butterfly Project is a call to action through education, the arts and memorial making. By painting ceramic butterflies, which are displayed as symbols of resilience and hope, participants remember the 1.5 million children killed during the Holocaust. In this work, The Butterfly Project honors our commitment to the Survivors to Never Forget.
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OUR EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING IS NEEDED NOW MORE THAN EVER
Ways to Give
What will you do to create a more hopeful and just world? Join us in our fight against hatred and bigotry today.
Our donors are the lifeline of our organization and make it possible for The Butterfly Project to reach and teach thousands of students each year.