PEOPLE AND DOTS

6 million Jewish people were killed during World War 2. People like Anne Frank. Or me.

For my memorial to those killed during the war I have put 6 million dots on this page. 

You can see the memorial below, but let's think about what it means first of all.

We can repeat this set of dots four times to show 100 people. We'll make the picture a bit smaller too.

This now shows about the number of children who come to Tugby School.

And if we repeat my picture 24 times we get 600 dots for 600 people - that's how many people live in Tilton on the Hill.

Let's make things a little smaller still.

Now with these smaller dots we can show 1,000 people on 5 lines, each of 200 dots.

This is about the same as the total number of people living in Tilton and Tugby together.

In the terrible attacks on New York City in 2001 just under 3,000 people lost their lives.  That's this many people.

Now we understand how dots can represent people, we can use my coloured dots to show the number of Jewish people killed in the Second World War.

This is my memorial

MEMORIAL - 6,000,000

6 million Jewish people were killed during World War 2. People like Anne Frank. Or me.

Take time to scroll down to see 6 million dots. Each one represents a life lost during the War ...

That's 30,000 people - just about the number that saw Jamie Vardy score a hat-trick at Leicester City's stadium on Saturday.

And that's another 570,000 - making 600,000 people in total. This is the population of Leicestershire.

It's just one tenth the number of Jewish people killed in World War Two. Keep scrolling. 

That's 6 million.

It's a lot of people.

A lot of disasters. A lot of villages. A lot schools and a lot of busses.

Two hundred football stadiums.

Ten Leicestershires.

I didn't realise it was so many.

They were people just like us.

We must remember that War is a terrible thing.

Fred Dykes