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An exhibit marking the horrors of the Holocaust is being created using 110,000 eyeglasses, some of which will come from such stars as Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe, Yoko Ono, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, and others. Radcliffe, who is Jewish, sent a pair of oval, gray metal-framed glasses that he wore when he was six years old. The glasses will be installed inside Liverpool Town Hall's main ballroom and will be made to appear, through the use of mirrors, as 330,000 glasses -- the estimated number of Jews in Britain at the time of the Holocaust. The glasses will be linked together in the shape of a railway track, in reference to the trains that transported Jews to their deaths at concentration camps.
Ono called the project, "Such a symbolic piece of artwork, which will help people to learn how important it is to never forget of the Holocaust and to challenge hatred and prejudice wherever it arises." Also donating his eyeglasses are Jason Isaacs, who plays Lucius Malfoy in Harry Potter, talk show host Jerry Springer, and others. The exhibition, which opens on January 21st, just a few days before Britain's Holocaust Day's commemorative service in Liverpool will be hosted on January 27th, which is the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
"We wanted to remind people of the horrors of the Holocaust, but we wanted an artistic response and not just... a mound of spectacles," said the project's director.
After the exhibit is dismantled, the celebrity eyeglasses will be auctioned for charity and the others will be donated to people in developing nations, according to the Associated Press.
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