Moriah School students collect 1.5m buttons for Holocaust Memorial

TV3 News (www.3News.co.nz) has done a wonderful report on the pupils at Moriah School who have spent the last two and a half years, collecting over 1.5 million buttons signifying one for each child who was killed. The children have received great support from all over the world, a visit from the Prime Minister last year and used this as an opportunity to build awareness of New Zealand's long-established Jewish community and of the Holocaust. "After maths we used to just count the buttons - Justine [Hitchcock] used to call it the big button-counting session," says student Zain Afzal. Moriah School will now start fundraising so the buttons can be put into a public sculpture in Wellington City.

While the school is Jewish character, its pupils also come from Christian as well as Islamic families. The school prides itself on strong community collegiality, academic acheivement and multi culturalism.

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