“It began as a lesson about prejudice…what happened next was a miracle.”
This movie chronicled a unique class project by students in a US middle school in Whitwell. Brought up in a fundamentalist Christian environment, most of the students had never encountered a member of the Jewish faith.
In a lesson to teach tolerance, educators at the school led the students to honor Holocaust victims by starting out to collect 6 million paperclips - each individual paperclip representing each life that perished in the Holocaust. As news of their endeavor spread, the school received responses and contributions from all over the world, culmilating in a collection of over 20 million paperclips.
Eventually, through the help of kind donors and sponsors, the school received an authentic German rail car (once used to transport actual victims by the Nazis) which would become a memorial displaying the millions of paper clips collected.
