Students at Whitwell Middle School in Tennessee began a study of the Holocaust in 1998. To understand the magnitude of people exterminated by the Nazis, the children began collecting these items.
- Barbie dolls
- Bars of soap
- Clothes pins
- Paper clips
Students at Whitwell Middle School in Tennessee began a study of the Holocaust in 1998. To understand the magnitude of people exterminated by the Nazis, the children began collecting these items.
Paper clips. Originally, the eighth grade students planned to collect six million paper clips, one for each Jew killed by the Nazis. Instead, they collected eleven million paper clips, one for every person, Jew and Gentile, killed by the Nazis. They chose paper clips because Norwegians wore paper clips on their lapels during World War II to protest the Nazi takeover of their country.
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