PAPER CLIPS!
I watched a fascinating little movie called “Paper Clips” yesterday. Students at Whitwell Middle School in rural Tennessee lead the cast for this documentary about an extraordinary experiment in educating middle school students of the enormity of the Holoaust. With the leadership of their teachers they decide to collect 6 million paper clips to represent the 6 million victims. The project started small but grew into an enormous project incuding meeting survivors from around the world and finally setting up a memorial with an actual cattle car sent from Germany. The documentary could have been edited and produced more succintly but the warmth of the young students toward the elderly survivors more than made up for its shortcomings. Definitely worth a watch and an interesting lesson in stereotypes on all sides.