So when I flipped my calendar over to the month of May a couple days ago I noticed that today is "Yom Hashoah" or Holocaust Remembrance Day. I’m sure many of you have seen Schindler’s List and if you haven’t please do so – it is a movie that will touch you deeply. Also I have another recommendation. Glenn and I love documentaries and about two years ago we rented a documentary called Paper Clips. It’s an amazing film here’s an excerpt from IMDB.com about the film.
Whitwell Middle School in rural Tennessee is the setting for this documentary about an extraordinary experiment in Holocaust education. Struggling to grasp the concept of six-million Holocaust victims, the students decide to collect six-million paper clips to better understand the extent of this crime against humanity. The film details how the students met Holocaust survivors from around the world and how the experience transformed them and their community.
One reason paper clips were chosen was because during World War II people in Norway wore paperclips on their collars as a sign of protest against the Nazis. It also something small enough to collect six million of and it gave the school children a tangible example of how many six million really is.
Six million think about that…
Read more about 2008 Holocaust Remembrance Day.
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