Post Gazette: "'How can you grapple with the number 6 million?' Edie Naveh asked members of the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre at the company studios on Monday.
Naveh, director of the Holocaust Center of the United Jewish Federation of Pittsburgh, was helping PBT to begin preparation for 'Light/The Holocaust & Humanity Project,' a work by Austin Ballet's Stephen Mills that will have its local premiere Nov. 12-15."
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I've been to a number of holocaust museums and having gone to a Jewish Day school for 8 years I've heard from plenty of guest speaker holocaust survivors. And every time I'm confronted with another piece of evidence of the genocide it's harder and harder. But one of the things I liked the most about this article was how the dancers from other countries connected this genocide to the ones in their past. One of the things that makes the theater what it is is that pain is universal. Death is universal. Grief is universal.
I'm reminded of the paper clip project - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_Clips_Project
Numbers that large are very hard to relate to, especially for younger students. Actually gathering that many objects in one place makes the number much easier to understand.
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