Daniel Radcliffe donates his glasses for Holocaust cause

Daniel Radcliffe,popularly known as the ‘Potter’ boy,who captivated moviegoers as the be-spectacled school boy wizard,has donated his first pair of glasses he wore as a chold to an art exhibition marking the horrors of the Holocaust.

The British actor joins several other celebrities and members of the public whose spectacles will be linked together in the shape of a railway track,recalling the trains that carried many of the Nazis’ victims to concentration camps throughout Europe.The exhibition in Liverpool will open January21.

The port city in northwest England will host Britain’s Holocaust Day commemorative service on January 27,the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

The 18 year old Radcliffe sent the oval,gray metal framed pair of glasses he wore as a 6 year old.Former British prime minister Tony Blair,US chatshow host Jerry SPringer and Yoko Ono,the widow of Beatle John Lennon,have also donated glasses to the exhibition.