Holocaust Museum Houston Brochure

Moral Choices Hall

Jerold B. Katz Family Butterfly Loft

At the heart of Holocaust Museum Houston, programs based in the Moral Choices Hall will remind museum guests of the choices they remain free to make and the lives that they can successfully impact, spreading the primary message of the Museum.

Suspended as if in flight, the Butterfly Loft sculpture is a kaleidoscope of 500 butterflies that represent and memorialize the 1.5 million children who perished in the Holocaust. Why butterflies? For over two decades, schoolchildren from around the world have created butterflies as part of their Holocaust studies with 1.5 million handmade butterflies now in HMH permanent storage. A selection of these personalized butterflies can be found encased along the wall of the education center across from the Butterfly Loft.

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