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(IsraelNN.com) British actor Daniel Radcliffe, who is best known for his role as the famously-bespectacled magical prodigy "Harry Potter," will donate the first pair of glasses he wore as a child to a Liverpool exhibition remembering those who died in the Holocaust.  The glasses will be linked with others to form the shape of a railway track, reminiscent of those upon which Jews were transported to concentration camps throughout Europe.
 
The 18 year-old actor, whose mother is Jewish, sent the oval, gray metal-framed glasses he wore as a 6 year-old to be part of the memorial.  Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, US talk show host Jerry Springer, and Yoko Ono, the widow of Beatles musician John Lennon, also sent glasses.  Organizers have requested 110,000 pairs of glasses, which will be illuminated and reflected to appear as 330,000 pairs, representing the number of Jews in Britain during World War II.

The exhibit will open January 21, followed by Britain's Holocaust Day commemorative service on January 27, the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. After the exhibit is presented, it will be dismantled, with some glasses being auctioned off for charity, while others will be donated to people in need of glasses.