Today, Sunday is Holocaust Remembrance day, if you see me with a paper clip here is why:
Norwegians have proudly embraced their countryman, Johan Vaaler, as the true inventor. During the Nazi occupation of Norway in World War II, Norwegians made the paper clip a symbol of national unity. Prohibited from wearing buttons imprinted with the Norwegian king’s initials, they fastened paper clips to their lapels in a show of solidarity and opposition to the occupation. Wearing a paper clip was often reason enough for arrest.
Some students in 1998 did some research, and discovered that citizens of Norway, where the paper clip was invented, and that the Norwegians wore paper clips on their lapels as a sign of patriotism and resistance against Nazi tyranny during the war years.
The students began a project collecting paper clips. We have been wearing paper clips for Yom HaShoah for so long, it seems funny that they began this project less than 10 yrs ago!
anyways..
Whitwell students set up a Holocaust museum on school grounds with the help of two German reporters, Peter Schroeder and Dagmar Schroeder-Hildebrand. They took a railcar that had been used to transport prisoners to Nazi death camps and turned it into a small museum. "This is the only Holocaust memorial in the world dedicated, built and managed by children," says Roberts.
The Holocaust Project has collected 32.5 million paper clips from all 50 states and 40 countries. A documentary, Paper Clips, opened in theaters around the U.S. November 2004.Did you see it? I hadn't even heard about it. Paperclips is available at Amazon.com Netflix has it as a rental. You can ask your local rental store as well.
We live in a time period where the words "Never Again" are being forgotten and ignored. Genocide is STILL a stark reality to millions around the world. Teach your children to Remember Today, lest we forget. And look into ways they can make a difference in Darfur, Bosnia, Iraq and the Sudan. Genocide should have no place in this world we live on. The Holocaust Project has collected 32.5 million paper clips from all 50 states and 40 countries. A documentary, Paper Clips, opened in theaters around the U.S. November 2004.Did you see it? I hadn't even heard about it. Paperclips is available at Amazon.com Netflix has it as a rental. You can ask your local rental store as well.
How does this effect me personally? My great-Grandmother and my Great Aunt were in Concentration camps while my Grandmother led protests of Hitler in Canada. Did I grow up knowing this? No! No one ever talked about this Horror in my family. I didn't know about it until I was in my thirties doing family research. We had decided learning History was VERY important for a Homeschooler to learn. We decided to begin with our own. My Aunt, the eldest in her family confirmed all I had learned. My father, didn't know any of his family's history. Forgetting robs each generation of their roots. Trees without roots die!
Put on a paper clip today and when asked why? Say "Because I remember and I don't want you to forget!"
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