Some losses are incalculable, because of not only the depth of the tragedy, but the scope of it.

 

It can be difficult to conceptualize large numbers, especially when those numbers are tied to an atrocity.

 

According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, as many as 1.5 million Jewish children were murdered by the Nazi regime during the Holocaust.

 

How can a tragedy of that nature be represented, or honored?

 

A moving new art project, years in the making at Bristol Community College, aims to answer that question.

 

“Bearing Witness: A Sea of Buttons in Memory of the Holocaust’s Youngest Victims,” is a physical representation of that loss, and a personal testament to the young lives that never got to be lived out.

 

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