“In 1998, a group of Tennessee school children embarked on a class project that would change their lives and impact those of countless others around the world. Responding to a history lesson about the Holocaust, the students began collecting 11 million paper clips (a Norwegian symbol of Nazi resistance) to commemorate each of the lives lost in the concentration camps. Filmmakers Elliot Berlin and Joe Fab document the project in their documentary, PAPER CLIPS”.
The majority of the people living in Whitwell had no knowledge about the Holocaust, and learned about the Holocaust, Genocide, hatred, prejudice through the Paper Clip Project, and those who had their own prejudices about those living in rural Tennessee learned quickly that they were also wrong in a lot of their preconceived ideas.
A German rail car (one that tranported Jews) stands as a memorial outside of Whitwell Middle School. It houses the eleven million paper clips inside the Children’s Holocaust Memorial which was dedicated on November 9, 2001. That date happens to be the 63rd anniversary of Kristallnact, known as “The Night of Broken Glass“.
The memorial has attracted visitors, not only from Tennessee, but other states and countries.
The Paper Clip Project can be seen at the Children’s Memorial, at Whitwell School, and is located at: 11 Main Street, Whitwell, TN 37397. Check their website for visiting times.
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