Students honor Holocaust victims with The Butterfly Project at Virginia Holocaust Museum

Apr 4, 2025 - 11:25

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Students honor Holocaust victims with The Butterfly Project at Virginia Holocaust Museum

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) -- Chesapeake art students honored Holocaust victims on Thursday by installing ceramic butterflies on a new mural at the Virginia Holocaust Museum in Richmond.

In the morning on Thursday, April 3, a group of art students from Great Bridge High School in Chesapeake installed 300 hand-painted ceramic butterflies on the new Henri Maizels Memorial Butterfly Garden mural in the Virginia Holocaust Museum's reception area.

The mural is dedicated in memory of a Holocaust survivor who lived in Henrico County and died in 2023.

(Photo: Paul Nevadomski/8News)

According to organizers, this was part of The Butterfly Project, a global initiative that both honors the 1.5 million children who died in the Holocaust and teaches schools and communities about the Holocaust through the arts.

The museum is expected to add thousands more ceramic butterflies to the mural.