German soccer team joins US Jewish school to honor children murdered in Holocaust – Students and pro soccer players paint ceramic butterflies together to commemorate victims from Westphalia, where team is based, as part of The Butterfly Project education program | Timesofisrael

JTA — The German soccer team Borussia Dortmund joined US students at the San Diego Jewish Academy on Friday to participate in a project to commemorate children who were killed in the Holocaust.
The club, which plays in the Bundesliga, Germany’s top tier of professional soccer, is in the United States for a series of exhibition matches against other teams from the United States and England. According to a press release from the World Jewish Congress, Dortmund had been training at the San Diego Jewish Academy over the past week.