The Paperclip Project
One School’s Fight Against Anti-Semitism, Became A World Wide Phenomenon
In 1998 in the small southeastern Tennessee town of Whitwell, a project began, the I’d was to collect six million paperclips representing the lives of all the Jews who were lost in the Holocaust. The school a mostly white Anglo Saxton Chr school had a goal in mind, it was not only to open the eyes of the students to the horrors of the Holocaust but to…