Local students recently had the chance to learn more about the Holocaust earlier this week.
In recognition of International Holocaust Remembrance Day Saturday Seneca Valley students at Ryan Gloyer Middle School heard from a Holocaust survivor descendent through the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh.
Students then participated in lessons about empathy and tolerance with activities that included painting ceramic butterflies as part of a grant from the Holocaust Center. The Butterfly Project is an initiative to create one and a half million butterflies around the world to represent every child murdered in the Holocaust.
Those butterflies will be placed on permanent display at the school.
