Full name: Six Million Paper Clips: The Making Of A Children's Holocaust Memorial

Author: Peter W. Schroeder Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9781580131766 158013176X

A great book--but don't stop there. This is just a tiny glimpse of an inspiring story about how two middle school teachers started a project that took on international dimensions. Whitwell is a small town in Tennessee with no ethnic diversity. As the teachers began teaching about the Holocaust, students could not grasp the idea of six million people being killed by Nazi Germany during WWII. So they began a project that lasted over several years to collect paper clips to represent those who lost their lives in the camps. My husband and I were introduced to this story by the movie "Paper Clips," several years ago. It is the almost unbelievable story of what happened to the students and the entire town. It is a well-told and heartwarming story. We were so taken with the story that we planed a trip to Whitwell where the Holocaust Memorial is still teaching young students about hate and yet how love can triumph. In the new school there is an entire room and library that is a testimony of how widely these students influenced others. Get the video and prepare to be impressed and moved. Similar books: The Children We Remember by Chana Byers Abells Children of the Holocaust by Helen Epstein While Six Million Died by Arthur D. Morse After the Darkness by Elie Wiesel The Seventh Well by Fred Wander Perpetrators Victims Bystanders by Raul Hilberg Hasidic Tales of the Holocaust by Yaffa Eliach Terrible Things by Eve Bunting Rescue by Milton Meltzer Schindler's Legacy by Elinor J. Brecher Never to Forget by Milton Meltzer Hidden Children by Jane Marks From Ashes to Life by Lucille Eichengreen The Righteous by Martin Gilbert Children in the Holocaust and World War II by Laurel Holliday