History Of Whitwell's Holocaust Project

In 1998 the students and teachers of Tennessee's Whitwell Middle School started a Holocaust project. The teachers came up with the idea to teach about the Holocaust when the principal Linda Hooper read about the Holocaust. Then they decided to collect paperclips for the Jews, Gyps and Homasexuals. They started by researching the Holocaust and by teaching the students what they learned then the students found out the Norwegians made paperclips.the Norwegians made paperclips because the paperclips represented the Jews, Gyps and Homasexuals that where in the the Holocaust and what was going on in Rome and how the Norwegians knew what was going on but couldn't talk about it because they would get in trouble. They collected paperclips for the Jews, Gyps and Homasexuals who died in a he Holocaust.
They wrote to people everywhere about their project to get many paperclip donations which went slow after a year went by.Whitwell became a legacy because of the memorial they made for the paperclips and for the rail car that had been used to transport Jews, Gyps and Homasexuals. The outcome of Whitwell's Holocaust project was a that the students would Meath others about the Holocaust and it could prevent it happening again. The memorial is still Whitwell with the paperclips inside where people can go inside and look at the rail car and paperclips. This was important because it was the way Whitwell students learned about the Holocaust. This project is also how the Whitwell students honored those who died in the