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Children's Holocaust Memorial - Paperclip Project

Whitwell Middle School, Whitwell, Tennessee

2006 October

(Most of the text below is taken from signs at the Memorial site)

HOLOCAUST MAHNMAL

DER KINDER

Röbel/Berlin | Whitwell, Tennessee
Deutschland | USA

Children's Holocaust Memorial

Never Doubt

that a

group of thoughtful, committed students

can:

"CHANGE THE WORLD - ONE CLASS AT A TIME".

As you enter this car,

WE ASK
THAT
YOU PAUSE AND REFLECT
ON THE
EVIL
OF
INTOLERANCE AND HATRED.

In 1998, the students, staff, and community of Whitwell Middle School
embarked on a study of the Holocaust.
These paper clips, a Norwegian symbol of resistance to the Nazi occupation,
were collected from all over the world and placed in this car
as a reminder of the tragic loss of 11,000,000 souls that occurred
during the Holocaust.
As you reflect on the horror of this tragedy,
we ask you to affirm the enduring spirit of those who survived.
With the dedication and vigilance of each person who
visits this Memorial an atrocity like this will never again occur.

IN THIS CAR

Diesel fumes and crackling wood
Cold steel tracks and nothing good
Mid the tears and burning eyes
Slam the door - hear their cries

Scorching iron of the wheels
They could not speak -
There were no deals
In the shadows they all stood -
Cold steel tracks and nothing good

On to Auschwitz, Treblinka, and hell
So very few were left to tell
Of that time we honor today
But we thank God -
There's more to say

For as we stand - united here
We honor them with every tear
For in this car is light and love
And God's own mercy from up above

We place this monument
On hallowed ground
For all to come and stand around
And touch the place where they once stood
Open the door - there's something good!

Judge Bob Moon
October 4, 2001

The luggage tags
in this suitcase
carry
Messages of
apology
To Anne Frank
From Students
In Germany

Quote of the moment

Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe.

~ John Milton, Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 1. ~

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