Rockwern Academy participated in the Houston Holocaust Museum's Butterfly Project. The Houston Holocaust Museum collected a million and a half butterfly art projects to commemorate the million and half Jewish children who died in the Holocaust. The inspiration for the Butterfly Project is a poem written by a young prisoner in the Terezin Concentration Camp in 1942 that ended with the line "Butterflies don't live in here . . . ."

The Museum reached out to schools across the country to participate in this project by asking that students create handmade butterflies for display in the Butterfly Project exhibit that is currently scheduled to open in Spring, 2012. 

Each child at Rockwern created a butterfly, and many were submitted to the Houston Holocaust Museum for their exhibition. Some butterflies were on display at Rockwern as an exhibit open to the public. Teachers Diane Woloshin and Etti Scheier are coordinated the project for Rockwern, and with the Museum.

The Rockwern display included the exhibit “Giving Them a Voice: Remembering the Children of the Holocaust,” created by The Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education featuring five children who experienced the tragic events of the Holocaust and yet have a connection to Cincinnati today.  Some of the children did not survive and are among the 1.5 million children who perished during the Holocaust.