I saw this at a film festival at the Synagogue in my town and just HAD to have a copy. Such a frank look at how a small, white town taught and learned about tolerance and diversity. This is such an incredibly amazing story and it is ongoing thru the decades. I have watched it several times when I want to cry good tears and feel good about the world.

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Keith G.

A superb film that should be better known

2018年6月26日に英国でレビュー済み

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A very moving film, showing a project done by an American school concerning discrimination. It featured the holocaust,but was done in a non-graphic way, that was still very effective. It was equally effective for all those involved in it and changing their attitudes and lives. It was also very emotional for those supporting the project.

One question it answered (in it's own way) was "what is six million" regarding the number of Jews who died in the Nazi camps. This is not a depressing film, but rather life-affirming in the humanity of all those involved.

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Little Miss Cutey

Moving, interesting and amazing @}->---

2006年6月10日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済み

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This is a fantastic documentary that should be seen by all. It's powerful and moving and simply amazing.
It's a story about a school in Whitwell, TN which is a small town about 24 miles North West of Chatanooga. There is only 2 traffic lights. Linda Hooper the school Principal talks about how there is such a lack of diversity in the school - no Jews, Catholics, only 5 black kids and 1 hispanic. The kids at the school were very sheltered and knew nothing about other cultures. She sent the assistant principal, David Smith to a conference in Chatanooga in 1998 to find a school project. He came back with the idea for a project on the Holocaust and approached the 8th grade teacher (Sandra Roberts) if she wanted to help. They set out to teach the kids about a totally different culture to their own. The goal was to teach them what happens when people are ignorant, predjudice and intolorant.
1998 started with the Holocaust project (the teachers were learning as they went too). When the kids found out that 6 million Jews were killed, one child asked how to comprehend how many was 6 million. That's how the project began because the teacher said for them to collect something and look at what 6 million actually looked like.
The kids found out that paper clips were invented in Norway and that during the Nazi occupation in Norway during World War II, Norwegians made the paper clip a symbol of national unity. They would wear the clips on their collars to represent the people in the holocaust. The kids asked to write to famous people and other schools to ask them to send clips. Tom Hanks, Tom Bosley, Bill Clinton and Bill Cosby are just some of the famous people that sent some to them.
Each year the next lot of 8th graders would take over from where the last years 8th graders left off. Clips came in spurts. Sometimes slowly and then heaps poured in. They were realising that this would take some time to collect them. After this story was released to NBC, clips came in thousands. Eventually they had about 24 million clips. The post office could no longer deliver them to the school; the school would have to come and collect them themselves because there were so many.
This is an amazing journey - you see these children learn so much and do so much good for other people. You see Survivors themselves come to talk to the kids and share their stories. This is when even the teachers get to see that this isn't just a story but a real life event that should never be forgotten. You hear the assistant principal talk about how he hopes his own children don't make racial slurs like his father did. It's very emotional to see.
A rail car has been used to store the clips in. It's an authentic German rail car. They got it to America and that's where the clips are. All the kids from previous years etc helped put the clips in the car. The car remains a symbol at Whitwell where it will stay.
You have to see this documentary. I can't stress enough how good this is and how moving and educational to many people. It's a must see and I highly highly recommend it to everyone.

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Lewibob

Modern Day Students Visualize and Personalize the Holocaust

2010年5月22日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済み

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One person can change the world! This statement rings true in this arresting and moving documentary by Elliot Berlin and Joe Fab. If you are a high school principal, teacher, administrator, student, or even professor, this film is a MUST SEE. It chronicles the efforts of Whitwell middle school(a tiny school in the middle of a tiny town in rural Appalachian Tennessee) and an Assistant Principal and Teacher who brought the idea of collecting 6 million paper clips to their school Principal as a class project. The Paper Clips would represent each of the 6 million Jews who were killed during the Holocaust. The Principal accepts the idea, and the teachers slowly begin to educate their students in regard to the Holocaust. Word slowly begins to spread from this little town in Tennessee and soon people all over the world are sending paperclips to this small school, including celebrities like Tom Hanks, Tom Bosley, Bill Cosby, and others.

Over the course of four years, awareness of the destructiveness of the Holocaust and its effect on the world begins to take root in the teachers, the students, the Principals, and the whole community of mostly white Protestant Americans in this film. By the end of this movie, the reality of the devastation that prejudice and hatred can cause is grasped not only by the students and teachers of Whitwell Middle School, but by the viewers of the movie as well. Added to the documentary are visits to the school by Holocaust survivors who share their stories with the students, teachers, and people from the community. All are moved to tears. Peter Schroeder and his wife, Dagmar Schroeder-Hildebrand, and a journalist for the Washington Post partner with Whitwell Middle school to spread their Paper Clip Holocaust awareness project to the world. NBC news picks up the story and the paperclips start pouring in, each with a story of survival or loss attached to it. Most moving is when Peter and Dagmar search all over Germany for an actual rail car that transported the Jews to the death camps. Successful, they ship the rail car all the way to Tennessee to Whitwell High School and a memorial is built in memory of the Jews and others who died in Nazi Germany. "As I stepped in the car I could feel the souls crying out," are the words of the Principal as she steps into the haunting rail car. I too had the same feeling from my couch as the camera panned through the rail car. The little school had received over 24 million paperclips, and I was moved to tears as they poured the paperclips into the rail car memorial. I envisioned each paper clip representing an actual person whose life had been cut short by hatred, prejudice, jealousy and greed. Imagine the population of whole cities or states totaling 6 million people were all wiped away in a matter of 5 or 6 years. Imagine the devastation to the families and friends of these people. This film is a powerful tool that can be used to teach future generations of children, students, teachers, and humanity of the importance of treating others the way you want to be treated.

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Sam Carew

Paper Clips

2009年4月6日に英国でレビュー済み

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I had never heard about the events at this school in the USA. I consider it one of the most inspirational ideas and certainly makes people give thought to what happened during the dreadful days of WW11.
The school should without doubt have received a special award from The Holocaust Remembrance Society and the Humanitarian Society (if such exists). The DVD is worth having in your Library for future remembrance.

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