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Buttons

Buttons cover.
L4 cover image march2012.

by Iona McNaughton 

The students at Moriah School in Wellington collected 1.5 million buttons, which represented the number of children killed in the Holocaust during the Second World War. This article reports on their reasons for doing this and the methods they used to gather the buttons. The students learnt about the personal impact of the Holocaust and designed a memorial to the children who died. 

Series: School Journal Level 4, March 2012

Learning area: English, Social Sciences

Curriculum level: 4

Reading year level: 7

Category: Non-fiction

Related titles: Listed in TSM

Topics: buttons, Holocaust, Second World War, memorial

In: School Journal Level 4, March 2012

Publication date: March 2012

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