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Celebrities Donates Eyewear to Holocaust Museum

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Mega star Daniel Radcliffe (who played Harry Potter in the film series based on the books written by J.K Rowling) has donated his first pair of glasses to the Holocaust museum. This is another donation in a long line of celebrity donations to the museum’s latest exhibit meant to mimic the piles of spectacles found at Auschwitz. Jerry Springer, Yoko Ono and Stephen Fry have also donated their eyewear to the exhibit. Former Prime Minister Tony Blair also donated his glasses to the cause.


The exhibitors will link all of the celebrity eyewear together to form a train track meant to copy the tracks which delivered the concentration camps. In all, organizers are seeking over 110,000 pairs of glasses. With mirrors craftily installed around the artwork the image will appear to portray 330,000 pairs – the estimated number of Jews in Great Britain during WWII.



The exhibit it set to open on January 21st, 2009 in Liverpool. On the 27th (Holocaust Remembrance Day) the city will remember those lost in the atrocities. The 27th marks the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, one of the more infamous of camps.


After the commemoration of Holocaust Day, the artwork will be dismantled and the glasses given to the charity group Vision Aid Overseas to disseminate across the developing world. Celebrity glasses will be auctioned off and the proceeds given to charity.

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