A Message From Our New Executive Director, Keren-Dee Hamui
I am filled with excitement and determination to share with you my deepest intentions to preserve the values and greatly amplify the impact of The Butterfly Project. I am humbled and inspired to step into this leadership role and I do not take lightly the seriousness of this moment as we witness the relentless incidents of antisemitism, Holocaust denial, and hate-fueled bullying against other marginalized groups in our communities.
We must take action now.
Using Holocaust education, art, and testimony
to cultivate empathy and social responsibility in classrooms, museums and community centers.
Butterfly 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.
Watch our programming in action
Our Mission
The Butterfly Project is a call to action through education, the arts and memorial making. We teach social justice through lessons of the Holocaust, educating participants about the dangers of hatred and bigotry to cultivate empathy and social responsibility. 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.
Our Testimonials
Stories from our Community
Participants of all ages and backgrounds share the meaningful and impactful experience they’ve had with The Butterfly Project school and community programming.
Stories from Survivors
Holocaust Survivors, as well as their children and grandchildren, have a platform to share their personal and unique stories through The Butterfly Project programming.
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.
Our Latest News
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