Six Million Paper Clips: The Making of a Children's Holocaust Memorial

The true story of students who helped quantify the horrors of the Holocaust

At a middle school in a small, all white, all Protestant town in Tennessee, a special after-school class was started to teach the kids about the Holocaust, and the importance of tolerance. The students had a hard time imagining what six million was (the number of Jews the Nazis killed), so they decided to collect six million paperclips, a symbol used by the Norwegians to show solidarity with their Jewish neighbors during World War II. German journalists Dagmar and Peter Schroeder, whose involvement brought the project international attention, tell the dramatic story of how the Paper Clip Project grew, culminating in the creation of The Children's Holocaust Memorial.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Kar-Ben Publishing (R)
Published: 01/01/2005
ISBN: 9781580131766
Pages: 64
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 9.26h x 8.32w x 0.17d
Award: Independent Publisher Book Awards - Finalist

Review Citations: Voice of Youth Advocates 06/01/2005 pg. 162
School Library Journal 07/01/2005 pg. 121
Booklist 01/01/2005 pg. 854
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2005 pg. 166 - Recommended, Satisfactory

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 103867 / Six Million Paper Clips: The Making of a Children's Holocaust Memorial
Reading Level: 5.9 / Interest Level: Middle Grade / Point Value: 1