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Posted: Thursday 28 January 2010

Remembering the Holocaust through Paper Clips

paper clips Linda Hooper 001The day after Holocaust Memorial Day, the whole of S3 gathered to hear the story of what one small school in the USA achieved to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust.

Linda Hooper, Principal of Whitwell Middle School, Tennessee, explained to the Hutchesons' pupils how her small school of 425 pupils in a community with virtually no diversity set out to teach tolerance more than 10 years ago by learning about the Holocaust and Genocide throughout history. They did this by collecting paper clips, one for each of the victims of the Holocaust, and continued until they had a collection of 30 million, which are incorporated into a permanent memorial at the school.

paper clips Linda Hooper 003The project spawned a book, 'Six Million Paperclips: The Making of a Children's Holocaust Memorial' and a full-length documentary movie, 'Paper Clips', part of which the Hutchesons' pupils viewed.

Tags: Ethos, History

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