The story of how a Tennessee public school collected 6 million paper clips to honor Jews who died in the Holocaust is being made into a documentary film. The film chronicles how a deputy principal’s idea to collect the clips to teach tolerance in a rural school with no Jewish students became a project that attracted international attention.
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