Bending the Arc

When the students of Tennessee’s Whitwell Middle School began studying the Holocaust as a way to learn about tolerance and diversity, nobody could have predicted the results. In 2001, the Paper Clip Project culminated in a unique memorial that changed the lives of those who created it, as well as touching Holocaust survivors and countless communities.

Because Norwegians invented the Paper Clip and used it as a visual of solidarity against the Nazis, students started collecting them to help visualize such vast numbers of victims. As word spread online and in the media, paper clips poured in from around the world, 11 million of which are enshrined in an authentic German railcar standing in the school yard.

The Congregation of Sisters of St. Agnes will be showing this film on Tuesday, November 11 at 5:30 pm. This is being offered as an in-person screening only. The public is invited to join us. For those unable to attend in person, the DVD will be added to our JPIC Resource Library and can be checked out for personal use. Registration is Required. Please sign up here.

The Paperclip Resistance Movement has been revived in the United States. The paperclip represents the concept that we are bound together and has become a visual symbol of unity and resistance to the authoritarian government we are experiencing here today in the USA.

• Show the world you are not afraid to defend our democracy… wear a paperclip!  
• Never allow yourself to normalize abuses of human rights… wear a paperclip!  
• Never stop fighting for your rights and freedoms and the rights and freedoms of others… wear a paperclip! 

Guests will be given a handful of paperclips to work on creating their own necklace during the film. We hope you can join us!!