Pupils from three local national schools helped former President of Ireland Mary McAleese plant a series of bulbs to remember the holocaust at her home in Roscommon this week.
Holocaust Education Ireland's Crocus Project was officially launched earlier this week with dozens of yellow crocus planted by pupils from Cootehall National School, Woodbrook National School and Carrick on Shannon Community School.
The flowers, recalling the yellow Stars of David Jews were forced to wear under Nazi rule, will bloom around the time of International Holocaust Memorial Day on 27th January.
The Crocus Project commemorates all of the children who perished in the Holocaust, and aims to educate schoolchildren over the age of ten about the Holocaust and the dangers of racism, and all forms of discrimination and hatred.
