The Paper Clips Project emerged in Whitwell, Tennessee to engage rural Tennessee students in Holocaust education. Meanwhile, in nearby McMinn County, the school board has taken a key source from eight ...

International Holocaust Remembrance Day is on Jan. 27 this year. On this annual day of commemoration, we are urged to honor those who lost their lives during the Nazi regime. The Holocaust started in ...

BLOUNTVILLE – A simple class project at a Tennessee middle school grew into an extraordinary international landmark thanks in no small part to the inspiration of school’s principal. Northeast State ...

Linda Hooper volunteers as Coordinator of the Children’s Holocaust Memorial in Whitwell, Tennessee. She is the former mayor of Whitwell and the former principal of the Whitwell Middle School. As ...

SIOUX CITY -- More than 20 years ago, a middle school principal in a small Tennessee town wanted her students to learn a lesson about tolerance. Despite the fact that the mining town of Whitwell had a ...

Until recently, the riveting and much-acclaimed 2004 documentary, “Paper Clips” — which chronicles the attempt by the small, rural town of Whitwell, Tenn., to educate its students about the enormous ...