Paperclips: The Benefits Of An After School Project

There were about 500,000 living survivors of the Holocaust in 2014. It is vital for students to be taught about the Holocaust in school. The article, "combating" shows that the students need to be aware that the event did in fact happen. The article "Genocide" shows students what happens when hate against one group or culture becomes too much. Elie Wiesel's Night shows students an eyewitness account of how much violence, brutality, and abuse to the prisoners had to go through in the Holocaust. Though some people are against the subject of the Holocaust because it is too graphic or mature for the students, it is important that students learn from a trusted adult instead of letting other students try to teach it to themselves. The students should learn about the subject of the Holocaust in school because it teaches the importance of equality, about the events occurrence, and teaching about the dangers of discrimination and abuse.

Six million people, who were all Jews from men and women to children and infants, suffered grievous oppression. Those were six million people who were innocently murdered. Not only that, but those six million people were the primary victims courtesy of a despotic Nazi assassination. This is the scenery of the Holocaust, a 4-year period of a systematically brutal decimation of Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, and so on and so forth. The Jews fled from Germany clandestinely to make sure that. According to the evidence amassed with the sources given, the Holocaust started through unchecked patriotism.

Some kids under the age of 10 had guns because the people told them to get the gun so they can help because they did not want to die. And also some of the kids were at a school and they walked in the school and got all the jewish people out of there and tent them to the ghetto with everyone else. (8 )

Should we teach the Holocaust to 8th graders? There are several different opinions on this matter, some saying the Holocaust shouldn’t be taught until adulthood, others say around age 13. This paper argues that the best approach is to teach children about the holocaust early on, because it’s in the interest of everyone that their first encounter with the Holocaust isn’t random, through a TV show or the internet. “...better...to help them navigate what they will learn about anyway.”

The documentary Paper Clips is about Whitwell Middle School’s paperclip project. In this project, students who studied the Holocaust couldn’t grasp the concept of how many people were killed. In order to improve their understanding on just how many people were killed during the Holocaust, the students decided to collect paperclips. Each paper clip would represent one person who died in the Holocaust- whether it was a Jew, a gypsy, a homosexual, or handicapped. The students asked people around the world to donate paper clips to honor each who was persecuted in the Holocaust. By doing so, the people in this project worked to inform, inspire, and persuade in many ways.

The Holocaust is looked at in lots of different ways, but in Whitwell,Tennessee the middle schoolers looked into the Holocaust in a very unique way. The small town of Whitwell, only containing a total of 1,600 people only having five African Americans and one mexican. It may have come off as a racial town when really, they were a very tight knit community. The project started when the students had no idea what six million looked like. The students decided to collect paperclips, they were easy to collect and also had a meaning to the Holocaust. The paper clip was made in Norway, the Norwegians wore the paper clip as a symbol of all the people in the Holocaust,because they were not able to speak out against the Holocaust. At first, the project

Whitwell, Tennessee wanted to teach their students about the holocaust. As they were learning about it they figured out that the Norwegian people wore paper clips on their clothing to represent that they were against nazism, it was a sign of resistance. So they decided they would collect paper clips from everyone and learn about the Holocaust. They wanted to teach their kids about the Holocaust so they can teach them not everyone is white, loved and cared for, and to teach others how they wanted to be treated. There was not many people in Whitwell so when they saw someone different they didn't know what to do so they figured it would be a good thing to teach the Holocaust. In the middle school there were no Jewish or Catholic people,but there were one Hispanic kid and five black kids therefore this project was pretty important.They set a low goal at

A little over two years ago, one of the worst tragedies concerning our nation’s children was playing out in a small rural town in Colorado. The date was April 20, 1999; the anniversary of Adolf Hitler’s Birthday, for any history buffs. But for everyone else the day started out like any other. In Jefferson County (often mistakenly reported as being in Littleton), Colorado, children went to school and parents went off to work. Neither was overly concerned about the other, or about how the day would go, but in a few hours, that would all change.

This website refers to the thousands of people killed during the Holocaust. During 1933 when the Nazis came to power they believed that Germens were “racially superior” and the Jews seemed “inferior.” This made the Jews seem to be a threat to the German radical community. During this time Germans targeted not only Jews but people because of their perceived “racial inferiority” and just anyone who had something wrong with them (gypsies, the disabled, some Slavic people, Poles, Russians, and others.) Also other groups were persecuted on political, ideological, and behavioral grounds, (Communists, Socialists, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and homosexuals.) By 1945 the Germans killed nearly 2/3 of every European Jew as part of the “Final Solution,” which

During this workshop, I learned about the Holocaust History and how important it is to share it with the students from grade level K-12. I understand that this material can be too intense to teach for children of such a young age, but I also feel that it is very important that they know this history so it will not be repeated

The Holocaust was one of the most tragic events in history which ended many innocent Jewish lives. Six million Jews plus many more were completely wiped out due to the effects of the Holocaust. It is still unforgivable for the things the Nazi party did and is still a very questionable subject on how they were able to accomplish such devastation. To be able to organize the removal of an entire population of people based on their religion not only takes high intelligence, but most of all takes a very twisted and demented outlook on life. Learning about the holocaust and the people involved is very important, as well as how it has affected our world today. There are many very fascinating things about the holocaust but three

As early as age thirteen, we start learning about the Holocaust in classrooms and in textbooks. We learn that in the 1940s, the German Nazi party (led by Adolph Hitler) intentionally performed a mass genocide in order to try to breed a perfect population of human beings. Jews were the first peoples to be put into ghettos and eventually sent by train to concentration camps like Auschwitz

Most people know that more than 6 million Jews were killed by Nazi Germany during the Holocaust. However, many people are unaware that an additional 5 million Poles, Gypsies, homosexuals, and other 'undesirables' were also exterminated

The kids just kept getting paper clips and the thing is they counted everything by hand. Then after that the some reporters came in and they put it out on the news and the paper clips came in even more than before and they were getting almost 20 letters a day. They were getting so much so fast that they they raised their amount to 24 million paper clips. When the reporters put what they were doing these 4 holocaust survivors came in and told their stories about what it was like to be in it. They said all of this at a church and a lot of adults and kids got really emotional. When they left a lot of the people in Whitwell was there to see them

During WWII a rich German man by the name of Oskar Schindler owned a company, which still stands today, called Enamel Factory. In that factory he had 1000 Jews working for him. When the Jews were gathered up and sent into the camps, Schindler’s Jews sent also, by a faulty. They weren’t supposed to be sent away. So Oskar, and his trusted Accountant, Itzhak Stern, also Jewish, came up with a plan to save his “company” as he excused, but was really saving lives! He did some string pulling, which took a long time, and sold (or bribed) his way into getting those people back. By the time Germany was bombed, Schindler being a former Nazi, was hunted down by the Nazi Party. He had to leave Germany, and when he did the 1000 Jews made him a ring, Oskar,