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HUNTERSVILLE, N.C. -- North Mecklenburg High School students designed butterflies Tuesday in remembrance of the children that died in the Holocaust. Known as the Butterfly Project, the activity is part of a national effort by the Holocaust Museum.

In addition to designing the butterflies, students in Kim Tuttle's 10th grade English class will be invited to release real butterflies this spring at Shalom Park in south Charlotte on the National Day of Remembrance.

"It makes me, as a teacher, proud to know that what I've taught them for past month about the Holocaust, and this is a good completion to the whole unit because now they finally see the resemblance and the meaning behind the butterfly,” Tuttle said. “That's to be free, and that's all the children wanted."

Each butterfly will become part of the national collection and displayed at Shalom Park.