Six Million Rectangles

Six Million Lives Remembered

People around the world paint individual rectangles that together form large-scale memorial artworks representing six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust.

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Watch the memorial take shape:

צפו בעברית

Live Progress

750,920

rectangles painted so far.

Each rectangle represents one life.

How millions of small rectangles become a memorial artwork

Paint Individual Rectangles

Complete Pages

Build Monumental Artworks

New Contributions

Recent groups joining the project around the world.

Ironi Dalet High School

Tel Aviv, Israel

+5,000

rectangles painted

Family Painting Session

Beit Shemesh, Israel

Yom HaShoah School Activity

King David Linksfield, Johannesburg, South Africa

Yahrzeit Memorial Event

Detroit, MI, USA

Zikaron BaSalon with Survivors

Raanana, Israel

Second Generation Workshop

Holon, Israel

Telfed Workshop

Raanana, Israel

The Project

The Six Million Project is a participatory art memorial honoring the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Participants paint rectangles on paper which are combined into large-scale collective artworks. Each painted rectangle represents one life. Together, the works transform an unimaginable number into something physical, visible, and human.

A Growing Global Memorial

The Six Million Project continues to expand through worldwide participation. Each completed page increases the scale and visibility of the collective memorial.

The aim of the project is for the completed painting to be exhibited in one large museum space, allowing us a direct, frontal view of all six million rectangles.

Bring the project to your community

For schools, synagogues, organizations, community groups, and families. No artistic experience required.

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Every contribution becomes part of the collective memorial.

לא פחות ממדהים ומצמרר. לנסות לקלוט את הרות ועדיין לא להבין איך העולם שטק. עם ישראל חי!

Astonishing and chilling to the depths of the soul.

We try to grasp the horror and the heart asks: how did the world stay silent? Am Yisrael Chai.

Chaim Broyde, Mayor of Raanana | חיים ברוידה, ראש העיר רעננה

Workshops in the Media

Hadassah, Israel

The Vered HaSharon Chapter recently hosted a Six Million Project workshop, contributing 3,000 rectangles to the artwork.

Read Hadassah's Article

United Herzlia Schools, South Africa

Bringing Holocaust remembrance, art and education together in Cape Town, South Africa

Read Herzlia's Article

AME 43

Families descended from Jewish refugees who crossed the Alps together reunited in Israel, carrying their shared history into The Six Million Project.

Read Karina's Letter

McDonald International Shul

At this Netanya synagogue, the warm community came together to create beautiful pages of color — each one a shared act of remembrance.

See Completed Painting

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