New York, NY – The lead actor in the “Harry Potter” films will donate his first pair of eyeglasses to a Holocaust memorial project.
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Daniel Radcliffe, Jewish through his mother’s lineage, will give the glasses he wore when he was 6years old to the Respectacles Project, where they will join 1,000 pairs. Other celebrities donating include Yoko Ono, Stephen Fry and Jerry Springer.
The art project was inspired by a famous photo of a mountain of misshapen and broken glasses taken from Holocaust victims — a testament to the magnitude of Nazi cruelty and murder.
The exhibit will be on display Jan. 21-26 at the town hall in Liverpool, England, as part of the national commemorations leading up to Great Britain’s National Holocaust Memorial Day on Jan. 27.
At the close of the exhibit, the glasses will be donated to Vision Aid Overseas.
Just to say it’s actually 100,000 pairs that are being collected, not 1,000!
The exhibit is based on photographs of mounds of glasses left at Auschwitz by victims of the tragic time in history. The celeb spectacles and glasses from members of the public will be linked together in the shape of a railway track — recalling the trains that carried many of the Nazis’ victims to concentration camps throughout Europe.
who cares?
Who knew he is Jewish??
im impressed
Wow!!
Now maybe they should also donate the glasses of the bobover that never sold….
Way to go Harry!