b'The project ran in conjunction with the special exhibition Let Me Be Myself: The Life Story of Anne Frank. It stemmed from the 2011 Every Child Has a Name legacy project, often called the Penny Project.The original project was started by youngsters at Memorial Preparatory School in Garland in 2006 and later by students at Trinity Christian Academy in Addison to collect pennies representing the children who had died in the Holocaust. For their bar and bat mitzvah projects, siblings Bryce Pidgeon and Jaxie Pidgeon who were Renner Middle School students in Plano at the time and are now in college, collected over 300,000 pennies to complete the collection of 1.5 million pennies to ensure all of the children who perished were represented. Says Jaxie, When you say 1.5 million children, its an incomprehensible number and maybe people become desensitized to what that really means. How long would it take to count to 1.5 million? To put it in perspective, the number of pennies we collected were literally too many for the museum to show on exhibit in the new museum.So, for Bryce and I, the Every Child Has A Name Penny Project put the count into perspective. The museum knows it is vital for the nearly 100,000 students who are expected to come through the museum each year to appreciate that they have the opportunity to honor the lives of those who died by making a name for themselves. The award recipients of the 2019 Every Child Has a Name project are Veronica Ledezma, Irma Rangel Young Womens Leadership School, Emma Derr, Sunnyvale Middle School, Ethan Siao, Sunnyvale Middle School, and Ashton Brown, Greenville High School.Siblings Bryce Pidgeon, a junior at Trinity University and JaxieIn 2018, the Washington Post reported that a poll showed that Pidgeon, a sophomore at UT Austin, returned to Dallas to participate22% of millennials hadnt heard of the Holocaust or werent sure if in the awards ceremony on September 15. They are pictured here withthey had, and 2/3 didnt know what Auschwitz was.This museum dear friend and mentor, Max Glauben, a Holocaust survivor andaims to make sure no one forgets. Bryce Pidgeon remembers, museum co-founder. It was an honor for Jaxie and I to present theWe were inspired by (Holocaust survivor) Max Glauben and the awards to these exemplary students whose literary and artistic worksUpstander program at the Dallas Holocaust Museum to complete gave a name to a child who died in the Holocaust, says Bryce. Imthe penny project back in 2011. We believed then, as we do today, glad to know that our Penny Project will live on through the Everythat it is extremely important to educate our community about Child Has A Name project. this devastating and despicable time in historya time when 3D holographic images of Holocaust survivors.murder was acceptedand do everything in our power to educate Themuseumshistoricalnarrativecontinueswellafterthepeople and to stop it from happening again.HolocausttoshowhowthesameTenStagesofGenocide, developed by George Mason University Professor and Genocide Watch founder George Stanton can be applied to other world events from the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia to the atrocities inFounded in 1984 by a group of Dallas area Rwanda.The museum also has a wing devoted to examining civil rights in America. HolocaustSurvivors,theDallasHolocaust What is key is that by not forgetting those who suffered we canandHumanRightsMuseumisdedicated strive to be upstanders in the future.Last year, the museumtoteachingthehistoryoftheHolocaust created the Every Child Has a Name project. The goal of the project was for students to research a child murdered in the Holocaustandadvancinghumanrightstocombat and to develop a research or creative project to commemorateprejudice, hatred and indifference.that childs life. Students from across Texas participated in theFor more information, to become a member, project. Ultimately, the Museum received over 300 submissions including works of art, poetry, essays, and multimedia creations.or to plan a group tour, go to dhhrm.org. Two high school and two middle school students were selected and honored at a special ceremony in the days before the grand opening.GoodLifeFamilyMag.comNOVEMBER | DECEMBER 2019 25'