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 ...

Retired educators Linda Hooper and Sharon Shadrick join News 12’s Amelia Greer to preview the launch of their book based on the Holocaust. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) – A lesson on diversity turns into ...

A documentary about a collection of 30 million paper clips isn’t common fare at film festivals. But the story of how students at a Tennessee middle school collected the fasteners in a project designed ...

When Joe Fab came across a 2001 Washington Post article on a tiny Tennessee school’s project on the Holocaust, making an award-winning documentary out of it was not foremost in his mind. “The story ...

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 ...