QUESTION
We are about to finish the movie, "Paper Clips."
1. Share to two details you learned from this documentary that had the most impact on you.
2. Did "Paper Clips" help you to further understand "The Diary of Anne Frank?"
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Student #2One of the most things that impacted me on the movie Paper Clips is that it really opened my eyes to how much the Jews suffered. Another thing is how sad it was to have to choose what line your family has to go in. The movie did help me understand the Diary of Anne Frank by showing how many Jews were killed and how they got to the camps is amazing.
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1. {27} The movie helped me see how much the jews suffered too, especially when we heard all the stories from the Holocaust survivors. That made it even more sad. I thought the book didn't really help me understand the movie because she never talks about what it would be like to go to a concentration camp in the book.
Student #3
I didn’t really see how many people got murdered by the nazis. Seeing all those paperclips made me realize how many people were killed. I also learned about 5 million Gypsies, Homosexuals, and other groups got killed. I now understand Anne Frank’s life better because of how emotional people got when they got up to speak about the Holocaust. I also think that it’s horrible that they would trick them into taking a “shower” and then gassing them.
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Student #4 Ithink that the thing that impacted me the most was the fact that they did this menmorial and that the paper clip represented that. Yes, this movie does make me further understand "The Diary of Anne Frank" because it helps me understand what the Jews went through.
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1. (6) I also think that the 6 million paper clips is a great way to represent the 6 million Jews that died in concentration camps. Because of this project people now know and understand the holocaust. I hope that this project will prevent a certain group from being singled out like this in the future. I agree with you, this helps me understand Anne Franks diary more because I know understand what the Jews were afraid of.
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Student #6 I think the biggest impact that the movie “Paper Clips” had on me was how the Jews suffered. I knew that they encountered pain, but I had no idea how horrible they had it in the concentration camps. Seeing their love ones die, and having almost nothing to eat… it’s really a saddening thing. Another thing that impacted me was if you think you can do something, and you have the perseverance to do it, then you can do it! The student’s goal was to get 6 million paper clips, which was a huge goal. But instead of getting 6 million, they got over 24 million paper clips! They must have worked hard to get that many paper clips. I think it helped me to understand Anne Franks diary, because it showed me what the Jews had to face.
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1.#2 I agree with you, I think that it’s horrible how they were treated in the camps. I also think that the movie was sooo sad and hearing the stories of the people in the camps was heart breaking.
#9 I agree with you. The Jews really did have to suffer, and they had to suffer in such a huge way. And loosing your loved ones would be a horrible, horrible loss. And for those kids to reach out and do such a thins is amazing!
Student #7I learned that a lot of times we judge people from what we first perceive them as and that you can’t fully comprehend the full extent of what people go through until you hear they’re story and listened to what things in general have to tell you. Yes, I think that the movie “Paper Clips” helped me understand the “Diary of Anne Frank” because we heard a little about what they went through and the extent of which people were treated and taken advantage of and that people can believe what they want to believe and could pretty much be manipulated into many harmful acts that could change people and lives drastically.
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1. ~32~ I also learned about how we judge people without even really knowing who they are. I mean I had heard about it and knew it wasn't nice, but watching this movie made me think judging people in a different way.
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Student #9 The frist was to think how such people could go from a small lesson to a huge thing that will impact history. It was amazing to see how people like us, everyday people, could reach out so far and do such a thing that will change the lives of people forever. An it also moved me hearing those Jewish peoples stories form back when they were there during the holocaust and how they felt. It helped me understand the dirary pf Ann Frank more in knowing how they felt whwn they had to go into hiding or somthing like that, how scary it must have been to have to hide like that, it must have been horrible.
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Student #10 The things that affected me the most in the movie "paper clips" was the storeys the serviors shared. It told how the Jews suffered, and was really sad. The other thing that affected me was the movie showed if you try hard at something you can do it. Those kids collected 24 million paper clips. Do you kno how much 24 million is?It huge! I think this help me understand the diary of Anne Frank.
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Student #11 Two things that impacted me was when they old man spoke about how he was in the camp and the doctor checked them and set his mom and younger brother right and him and his older brother left. Then he asked one of the people that worked there where his family was and he pointed to the smoke coming out of the building and that meant that they gassed them and burned them. When the train came in and you knew that people were carried to concentration camps in that car you could feel the pain and suffering they went to on the train and in the concentration camps. The move really helped me understand the diary of Ann frank. It made me understand what they went threw and how they felt when they were sent to the concentration camp.
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Student #12 The movie did help me understand about what happened during Ann Franks life and what the Jews went thrugh in the camps and how bad it was. I learned that more then 6 million Jews died and that was really sad.
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1. [#7] Yes, it was sad that 6 million Jews died and suffered and I also think that it is bad that people went along with Hitler and believed everything they were told and ruined others lives forever.
2. It was incredibly sad how thos 6 million Jews died, and howw the torchured them. The storys that the survivors told were also sad. I also thought it help me understand Anne Frank more. --#10
3. [#18] I agree with all three of you. I think its SUPER heart-breaking that 6 million jews were killed, and 1.5 million of them being children. It scares me a lot to know that there are people out there that are so prejudice that they are willing to kill 6.5 million people. I think thats horrible.
4. (3)I agree with you. Killing that many people is not human. You shouldn’t be able to just take over a whole region of the world and kill 6 million of its dwellers.
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Student #14
2 things that had an impact on me yesterday was the survivor stories and how those people could live through that. The other was the fact that they collected 24 million paperclips. That's alot. This movie helped me understand the diary of Anne Frank better because now I sort of know what it would have been like to go into hiding
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Student #15 -- I was absent the day we watched Paper Clips in class but I heard it was an amazing touching story. I'm going to watch it tomorrow after school, I will fill in my reply then.
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Student #18
I thought that the thing that impacted me the most was when one of the holocaust survivors talked about when his mom and younger brother were chosen to be killed and him and his other brother got to live. I think thats the worst thing, to have to work knowing that the nazis had murdered your mom and brother, along with many more innocent jews. The movie did help me connect to the Anne Frank story very well, because it helped me relate to what she went through in the concentration camps.
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(14) I agree it would be terrible to be separated from your family and not know what happened to them until you were told they died
Student #19 Two things that impacted me in "Paper Clips" was how one of the suriviors talked about how his brother and mom went left and him and his older brother went right, and how he asked the guard what happen to his mom and brother and then he saw the smoke. Just think, what if that was your family. Another thing is how they said that it would take 10 years to collect 6 million paper clips, but people really felled touched by this project and donated more. I think this movie really helped me understand "The Diary of Anne Frank" because it told you a little about what happen in the concentration camps and what it was like for Jewish people.
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1. (#4) I agree with you becaues it took so long to get 1 million paper clips but then people started to see what they were doing and in about 1 year they got 3x what they were aiming for.
Student #20
Two things that had an impact on me was that it was going at the beginning of the project it would have taken them ten years to collect 6 million paper clips. Because it only took like 3 or 4 years to make those 6 million deaths. I didn’t know that 5 million people were killed that weren’t Jews I know people who helped Jews where killed. Also that they tried to keep the camps from the public. I’m sure that if some people saw what they were doing to the Jews they would have changed their mind on if the camps where the right thinks to do. Its hard for me to think that it really happed like there are people living today that went threw the camps because most times I hear about the camps are in books or see pictures but there where people that actually lived there and worked there. To me the book and the movie both showed that everyone can do good things and even though these bad thing happened there are people that care about it. Also it kind of showed me what Ann went threw after the diary was done. Because she had to leave it there,we don’t know what it was like for her in the camps.
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1.-19- I agree with you on how 6 million paper clips would take 10 years, but 6 million jewish deaths only took 3 or for years. Same with how 5 million other people were killed. It was very hard to think what happen in those camps.
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Student #22
I have three main things that really impacted me from this documentary. In the Paper Clips documentary, one of the facts that had the most impact on me was that Whitwell was such a small, rural town and that they wanted to do something to commemorate all 6 million (+) people that died. I was also impacted by the humbleness that the former prisoners showed. At first, I really thought that they would take on a more proud attitude, sort of like, “Oh look, I survived through the Holocaust. Look how good I am.” They did not. They came onto the stage, ready to share their stories as prisoners in a very open way. Another part that hit me hard was the train car. It was horrible how they would pack the Jews into that tiny car. It made me think about what I would have done if I were there. I do not know if I would have been strong enough to survive through the awful torture that the Jewish were put through .The documentary and the stories connected to Anne Frank in the way that the Franks were put through the same thing. They were sent away to concentration camps and were separated from their families. Even though Anne knew that she and her family could be captured, she kept a very open and kind mind towards the Germans and to what might happen to their family. She was ready and brave enough to survive in the concentration camp until, three weeks before its liberation, illness brought Anne and Margot to their tragic death.
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Student #27 The fact that one hundred jews were packed into one traincar was not something I expected. The train car was extremely small and I think many jews probably suffocated. Another thing that impacted me the most is when we saw the people that survived it talk. It made the holocaust seem a lot more real, and even more sad. "Paper Clips" didn't really help me further understand "The Diary of Anne Frank" because in the diary, she says nothing about what it would be like to actually go to a concentration camp. But it does help me realize more about what she would be afraid of.
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Student #28 I think the movie helped me understand the diary of Anne Frank. The move had a lot of people crying. It was sad, but I didn't cry.
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1. [#31] I agree with you that the movie was really sad, but I didn't cry either. The movie also helped me understand the diary better because of the pictures and how they explained how the people died in the gas chambers.
Student #29
One thing that impacted me the most was that the ‘Doctor just carelessly who could live at that particular time and who couldn’t, and to think of how many generations are now lost and how far in intelligence we could be all because some crazy guy didn’t like people for their religion and beliefs. The second thing that impacted me the most was just hearing the little bits of the holocaust survivors ‘people who actually experienced it and had to deal with the trails and tribulations. The movie really didn’t help me learn more about The Dairy of Anne frank since I already knew a lot and understood it pretty well.
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Student #31
Two details from the movie that had the biggest impact on me was probably the part where the Jewish man talked to the school about what it was like to be in the concentration camps, and also it made me sad when he asked where his little brother was and one of the guys pointed at the smoke coming out of the building. Another part was when they told us that 100 Jews had to travel in that tiny train. The movie did help me understand the diary because of the pictures, and the Jews talking about there lives.
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1. (28)I would agree with you about the two details. It was sad that the people were being punished for just being Jewish. The movie did help me understand the Diary of Anne Frank and the pictures did help me understand to.
(20) The part about the train also impacted me cause thats a lot of people and when you think about it being dark and having a ton of people stand around you and your standing there for 12 hours with no breaks. Also people who where sick gave people on the car sick too. Also that cart was made for animals to travel in not people.
(22) I agree about the train car. It was astonishing how the Germans packed the Jews into that tiny car. It really shocked me that they would hate another religion so much, that they would suffocate in a car, on their way to a concentration camp were they would be tortured further.
{11}I agree with you about the old man speaking it mad me really sad and want to cry. I also agree with you on how they crammed all the Jews in the tiny train I was so surprised that they could fit that many people in there. I also agree with you the movie helped me understand the pictures and the play better.
(student#29)I agree it made me almost cry to hear the part where the old man asked where his brother and mother were and the guy he asked pointed to the building with the smoke. Just hearing him talk how emotional he got and seeing tears streak down his face made me soo lucky that I wasn’t shipped off there with 99 other bodies up against me in a little car. Although I don’t think the movie helped me understand the Diary of Anne Frank it did open my eyes and make me think twice next time I am quick to judge.
Student #32
Judging or stereotyping, I learned, is something that hurts you and can cause uncalled for actions. The reason it can hurt you is because you don’t give yourself a chance to know the person for who they are. Also it can cause inappropriate actions because you may begin to hate the person and tell others. Then you don’t like those people and want to harm them or show them they are wrong. I also learned that happiness can make you said. I never realized or really thought about it that way, but I know if I had ever been in a situation like that man I would of happiness being sad. This movie has helped me to understand “The Dairy of Anne Frank” as to the number of Jews that were actually killed. The movie hasn’t helped me to understand about Anne more but has helped me to understand the whole holocaust part a little more.
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