The 70,273 Project and His Majesty's Hope

Are you familiar with Susan Elia MacNeal's Maggie Hope mystery series? She sets her books in Britain and Europe during WWII. Her book, His Majesty's Hope, is set in Berlin and makes one relive the heartache of the 70,273 lives lost in 1940-1941.

Jeanne Hewell-Chambers explains on her blog, the barefoot heart, about The 70,273 Project. This worldwide collaborative project commemorates the lives of the 70,273 physically and mentally disabled people murdered by German Nazis. The white fabric represents their medical records; the two red X's represent the judgement of doctors, after they read those records, as to whether they should be executed. If the doctors marked two red X's on the medical record, the decision was made. She is collecting 70,273 double red X's and is still taking contributions.

The red X's will be made into quilts and shown all over the world. Women working together and creating a movement to enlighten the world about untold horrors which hopefully will prevent the same atrocities from occuring in the future.