The kids in Moriah school wellington decided to get exactly 1.5 million buttons - all different colors, shapes and sizes. The 1.5 million buttons represents the amount of children that were murdered during the second world war. Firstly the school had to plan how they were going to get the 1.5 million buttons. To them this seemed like an impossible task. But after thinking and brainstorming the school thought of an idea. They started making posters and telling friends about gathering buttons then soon enough the school had HUNDREDS of buttons coming in everyday, and most of them weren't even from New Zealand. They had packages coming in from U.S, Norway, Germany, Poland, Netherlands, France and Indonesia. Plus a lot of the buttons also came with stories about the buttons history. One women who donated a button was in the holocaust and came to the school in wellington Once the school FINALLY hit 1.5 million buttons they had a button party with the Jewish community to celebrate.