During the past year, the youth group members of my congregation set a very ambitious goal for themselves. They were going to design and construct a meaningful memorial to the 1.5 million Jewish children who were murdered by the Nazis. They planned to make it a permanent exhibit at the Temple and they were going to do it out of crayons. While the plan called for 1.35 million of those crayons to be donated to area schools and institutions, 150,000 of the crayons were going to be retained in a permanent display. Youth group members wanted the memorial to be a teaching tool. They believed that one of the most difficult facts arising from the Holocaust was the sheer magnitude of the numbers involved. If young people could see what 1.5 million of anything looked like, they might gain an appreciation of the magnitude of young lives lost. In addition,…