2024 is the Paper Clips project and movie 20th anniversary. In this day and age, it is a movie that brings hope and inspiration still today
Whitwell Middle School in rural Tennessee is the setting for this documentary about an extraordinary experiment in Holocaust education. Struggling to grasp the concept of six-million Holocaust victims, the students decide to collect six-million paper clips to better understand the extent of this crime against humanity. The film details how the students met Holocaust survivors from around the world and how the experience transformed them and their community. The idea came in 1998 from three of the teachers at the school and was completed in their eighth grade classrooms. The students ultimately succeeded in collecting over 25 million paper clips and establishing a National Holocaust Museum at the school which is still operating today and is the site of many school trips from institutions around the country.
Paper Clips takes place in the rural, blue-collar Tennessee community of Whitwell, where a middle-school class attempts to gauge the magnitude of World War II's Holocaust by collecting paper clips, each of which represents a human life lost in the Nazis' slaughter of Jews.
Light desserts will be served during the movie, including popcorn
Sponsor: Congregation Berith Sholom