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.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Kar-Ben Publishing ®
Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 1, 2004
Edition ‏ : ‎ First Edition
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 64 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 158013176X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1580131766
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 8 – 13 years
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.63 x 0.15 x 9.25 inches
Grade level ‏ : ‎ 5 – 7
Best Sellers Rank: #150,705 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #32 in Children’s Judaism Books (Books) #33 in Children’s Holocaust Books #174 in Children’s Books on Prejudice & Racism
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