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?"
Student #1 One detail I learned from this documentary that had the most impact on me would be that they killed so many people. This was just horrible and I wanted to cry when I learned it. I thought they just killed people if they were bad. I thought bad people went to the gas chambers, but anyone could have. It also hurts me to learn how people were burned after they die. It was all just so sad and horrible! Another detail I learned is how women and men were separated. I thought they were together. I don’t know what I would do if I was separated from my family. It must have been horrible for some of these people! “Paper Clips” helped me understand “The Diary of Anne Frank” more because I see how important it was for the Franks to stay hidden. Also I understand what Anne and her family might have gone through at the camps. I feel so sad and upset when I hear of these stories. However, at the same time they interest me. I love to hear people’s stories and what happened to them. The happy ones are always better to hear though!
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1. #23 Although I didn't watch the movie yet I agree, to have killed so many people is such a devasting event as the Holacust was. I will probably cry after I watch it, but what can we do? to have thousands die and not let it effect our life at all? Yes, I agree that the 'incident' was a greatly mortifying event in history, to have put people in gas chambers; kids, adults, the old. I dont understand how people could be so cruel. If I was separated from my family I would be miserable, lonely and cry myself to sleep every night. I can't even begin to imagine what pain these people went through. I also love to hear peoples stories that are really painful, but at the same time interesting and you want to keep learning more and more and more. But again I agree with you the happy ones are better to hear!!!! : )
Student #2 One thing that had an impact on me was that they burned the Jews in ovens. That would be so horirible to br in one or even to be in that time period. Also i don't get why Hitler hated jews and Blonds with blue eyes were the sacred people. It sort of help me understand but i forgot so that doesn't do anything for me.
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Student #4
One big deatail i learned from the paperclip video was actually how many people we kiled against their will during the Holocost. Another thing that impacted me was the man who had his family separated. He had no say nor choice in the matter, and before he knew it his mother and brother were killed. I can't even begin to imagine the pain he must have been in and gone through. After watching the video my understandiing for Anne's diary also became much more clear. I had never put into consideration actually how many people we lost. Now, i have a much more clear understanding for all of this, and now i realize how tramatic and horrible this whole thing really was.
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One thing that had the most impact was the fact that if my family were separated like that one survivor, I would never see them again. I felt really sorry for the man, and I would hate for that to happen. Another thing that impacted me is that they collected over 29 million paperclips! Those are a lot of paperclips! All by sending out letters and other advertizing like that. “Paper Clips” helped me understand “The Diary of Anne Frank” better because I realized how many Jewish People were murdered in concentration camps, and how hard it would be to get separated from close friends and family members.
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Student #6
One detail I learned is how horrible it was to be taken out of your home and put into concentration to be killed just because someone hates you. I would be very scared and I wouldn’t know what to do. Just like when that one survivors mom and his brother were divided from him and his other brother to be killed. I could never imagine my mother dying or taken away from me. Another detail how many were killed. Millions of people killed in only a span of a few years is so horrible. I couldn’t get over how many people were killed for only a single reason. It really helped me understand the big idea of how horrible Hitler was to these people and just how scared I would be if I were in Anne’s position.
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1. Your first detail is a detail that I learned about from that movie. That would have been extremely scary and horrible to be taken to concentratio camp and be killed just because someone hates you. I never knew that that many people had died either. It opened my eyes to see how horrible Hitler was too.
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2. After I read your ideas you brought a great point to my attention. I never realized how many Jews were actually killed either. It is amazing how many lives were taken and it kills my heart! (#1)
Student #7
One of the things I learned from this documentary was that after the Jews were taken to the concentration camps/ death camps, they were either directed left or right, either to the gas chambers or the place where you have to work. I learned this from one of the Holocaust survivors speaking in the movie. I didn’t understand the gas chambers at first. I didn’t know they had been burned and suffocated in there. Another thing I had just learned about the Holocaust from the movie was that there were actually survivors that lived until 2001 or whenever the school in Tennessee did their project. I was really surprised that there were still survivors out there to tell their story. I didn’t think there would still be survivors from the Holocaust still living today but I guess there is. It must’ve been tough for those people and I think their stories that they told were really touching, and at the same time, amazing. I couldn’t imagine being in their place when they were at concentration camps. It must have been absolutely dreadful. Watching “The Paper Clip Project” definitely helped me understand “The Diary of Anne Frank” better. I was surprised when I saw all those paper clips. It’s kind of weird how when they say “6 million”, it doesn’t sound like a whole lot, but when you see all those paper clips, it really helped me imagine how many Jews were taken to the death camps and how many people’s lives Hitler made miserable. It also showed me how big of a deal the Holocaust actually was. I’ve heard of it before but I never thought it was a really big event. But “The Paper Clip Project” showed that it was a huge deal and it explained the event so thoroughly.
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1. I too didn't know that there were actual survivors from these death camps still living now. I also learned about how you were either sent left or right by the doctor. My question about that though is how did the doctor make his decision? Did he keep the healthiest people for working or did he just decide? The paper clip project documentary also helped me understand "The Diary of Anne Frank" better to. I know just what you mean about like how you don't think that six million is a lot but it really is a huge number. #17
Student #8 I never fully realized how bad the conditions were and how easy/common for you to be picked and killed. This movie did help me to see how important it was to stay hidden and secret. after experiencing the camps their "family" was left with only one member. The movie did a good job of showing me what the expirience was for the people who lived through it and who liberated the camps. I really feel bad for those people who lost family and friends in the camp.
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1. I agree with you. It’s pretty sad how easy it was to just get picked to die. I can’t imagine what it would be like to lose all you family in concentration camps. It definitely showed the vital importance of staying hidden. Great response, I agree 100%. #31
2.I agree all the way with you. I never realized how bad the comditions were for the either. I also feel the movie did an excelent job of show ing me what it was really like to live inside of a Nazi death camp.I could never bear to be separated from the rest of my family like that. Good job!
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Student #9 This documentary really showed me that this event didn’t happen to long ago and that these kids are now going off to high school or college and being able to say “I did that paper clip project and learned a lot from it.” I also learned more about the survivors and how they think about it everyday and wonder what it would have been like if the Holocaust never happened. I thought they movie was very sad but very touching. I didn’t realize that kids were separated from their parents and brothers and that they could have lost almost everyone of their family members and be the only one to survive and have to live their life be themselves. I thought the movie really hit the spot on showing us how many people died and I thought that many people could benefit from this movie today.
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Student #11
One thing I learned from the movie "paper clips" was that paper clips were a sign of peace. Another thing I learned was that no matter how predjudice you think someone might be, people do care for people who are 'different'. At the beginning of the movie I thought the kids wouldnt be very into the project, but all of the kids seemed to be very touched by the project. I also find it great that the kids reached out to the adults in the community.
The documentary somewhat helped me understand Anne Frank. Mostly, it helped me realize things about the untold part of the story, the camps. Many of the survivors stories clarified what the camps were like.
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Student #12 I think that the most impacting thing would have been finding out (if I was separated from my family in the first place) weather they had died or not. I think it would be impacting because if they had not been killed I would have a whole different view on life. I would feel so lucky that myself and my family were alive. But had they died I would never be able to forgive those people who killed them for what they had done.
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Student #14
Responses to Student #14:The two details that had the most impact on me would be one, that you were separated from most if not all of your family and you don’t know if they are alive or being gassed or anything, you can just hope and pray. I don’t know what I would do without my family. Two would be that at any given moment you could be the next to die and around 6,000,000 people died during this horrible event. Michigan’s population is about 10,000,000 so that would be more than half of are state’s being killed because we don’t like what they believe in. This helps me understand the diary of Anne Frank more because now I know how important it was to stay in hiding and how horrible it would be at that camp.
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Student #15
I think that one detail was that 6 million Jews died just for being Jewish. It also impacted me because of how they died and how they decided who would die. Another detail was that the Nazi’s had no problem with putting these innocent people in a gas chamber and then burning them to death. The last and final detail was the train car because the vice principal said that they stuffed 100 people in those little tiny cars so anybody could spread diseases and people could suffocate in the cars. Paper Clips helped me understand the Holocaust a lot more because of the survivor’s story’s and the paper clip idea.
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1. Actually I think the Nazi's did have a problem with putting those innocent people in gas chambers because they aren't cold blooded jerks, I think they were doing as they were told, and if they didn't listen to orders, they would be thrown in with the Jews in the gas chambers. §tudent #5
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Student #17
One thing I learned from the documentary that had the most impact on me was how many Jewish people and other people were killed during the holocaust. The total was eleven million. Another thing that I learned was about how they transported the people to concentration camps. They would send them to those camps with over one hundred people packed into that little rail car. I think paperclips did help me to better understand “The Diary of Anne Frank” because it showed real people who had lived through those times that are still alive today. I never comprehended that there are still people living today from that had been in those hideous camps. I am currently reading The Diary of Anne Frank and she had to go through so much struggling, pain, and hardships. She described how she felt like she was betraying the people she watched marching to the “death camps” in the streets because she was there in the secret annex, safe.
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1. I know what you mean it must have been unbelievably hard. But actually only 6 Million Jews died!
2. I didn't know that they were transported by rail cars to death camps either and I didn't know before that there was a total of 11 million people killed. I also thought the movie helped me understand "The Diary of Anne Frank" a whole lot better. (From Student 7)
Student #18 The movie has been really amazing. Not necessarily that it will be the next “must see” in theaters; but for a school movie it is kind of cool. I think it is truly amazing what the kids are doing/ did. I mean 29 million paperclips. It has its direct connection of each paperclip counting for a Jew. However, I think that the kid were also Kind of in a similar situation to the Jews. Both the Jews (to get free) and the Kids (collect paperclips) had a goal. Along the way both groups stumbled and lost some faith. After a while, they started to get some hope. For the Jews it was when the U.S. troops came into Normandy, they thought that they were almost free. For the kids it was when they reached their desired amount of paperclips, and more kept coming. Finally their dreams come true when the Jews are liberated, and the kid’s finish and get to dedicate the memorial. I thought the movie really helped me understand Anne Frank’s life, and the Holocaust in general. When I heard the stories from someone who was there, rather than just reading them in a book, really made the Holocaust “come alive” to me. I think the parts that had the most impact on me were when the guy told about seeing the smoke, the retired soldier telling about the girl that was sick with the big brown eyes. Also when they walked into the railroad car for the first time really touched me.
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Student #19 Something that I learned from the movie is that Jews were not the only people who died in concentration camps. Other people who died there were the jypsies. The majority of the dead though were Jews. The total amount that died was around eleven million. Another thing that I learned is that many of the people were transported in a railcar. In these railcars there were about eighty to onehundred peopin them. Many of these people sufficated because there were so many in such a small area. This movie helped me understand "The Diary of Anne Frank" because it showed how many people actually died. It also helped because it showed what a scary time it was and how scared Anne would have felt. At times the movie made me feel like I was actually going to a concentration camp such as when they were in the railcar.
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1. I learned basicly the same things you did good job #2
2.I didn’t know that people other than Jews were sent to their deaths by railcar either. (#20)
Student #20
Responses to Student #20:The fact that such a horrifying travesty can bring people from everywhere together (or at least send a paperclip) had a fair impact on me. Another thing that had an impact on me was the towns’ kindness towards the survivors they had never met. That act of kindness really humbled me, which is hard to do. I could understand “The Diary of Anne Frank” better after watching the documentary, because the paperclips and their overwhelming amounts represented the enormous populace that Hitler literally exterminated from the face of the Earth. That kind of gave me the feeling of what it must’ve felt like to know of the monstrous fate of your brethren and know you’d be next in line for the gas chambers or being separated from your family. That has to be more frightening than watching all three exorcist movies, all the Jason and Freddy movies on Halloween at midnight. The reason is because you know that Freddy won’t come to you in your sleep and mutilate you (I apologize for the graphic word use) but when millions of people whom share the same faith as you are being killed off like overpopulated deer, you cannot take comfort in the fact that this is all a dream. It’s as real as the very air you breathe. That is the true sense of terror. Millions of people went through and only a few hundred have actually made it out with their lives. Even though they survived, nothing can ever completely overshadow the horrors that the person endured.
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I totally agree with you. Hitler killed many people and getting all those paper clips really helped show the people who died from him. And showing how much that little town cared about those people also touched me. I thought that the kids at that school learned a lot cause they didn’t have many other “different” kids in the school and that I think taught them that their not the only ones and to be nice to the others who are different cause their all “good people at heart” as Anne said in her dairy.
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Student #23 I was not here to witness the documentary so I am not able to yet answer this question. Basically, I am out of the loop. To be out of the loop I feel confused, lost and anxious to learn what I missed. But from what I have heard, the movie "Paperclips" seems to be quite sad. I will be watching the movie tomorrow so after further viewing I will be able to incorporate that into this response : )
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1. I think that the movie was indeed really sad to think that 6 million Jews died in the holocaust. So be prepared to be sad. I know some people (in our class and in the movie) cried a lot. So be prepared for a sad yet interesting video. – Student 12
Student #24 ~Paperclips was a very different movie I thought it was cool when you walk in that memorial looking at all those as people who were died only because of what they believed and this is something suffered that should never happen again. I also learned that there were five million gypsies and other people that Hitler hated and discriminated. Whenever think about it he murdered millions of Jews.From this story I was avle to pick up a little although this was a very cool project i thought that it was a little unfair with all the poor people out there to ask for paperclip donations.~
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1. I can still barely comprehend the fact that 11 million died. It's amazing and sickening to know that a country pulled that off.
( #26 ) I didnt know about the gypsies and the others he killed before the movie either.
2. I agree with you. I think it’s horrible how a total of eleven million people died including the Jews, Gypsies, and Jojoba Witnesses. It’s horrible how only one person could kill so many people just because of what he thinks.
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Student #25 The two facts that had the most impact on me were the fact that 6 million jews died in concentration camps and also that there was one man that decided if you and your family stayed together, split up, live, or die. That would be very hard for me to handle. I would hate to hsve to be that man. I think that the movie helped me to understand the play a little bit more because it showed what was going on outside of their secret little annex.
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1.I totally agree with you. I would never in my whole life want to be the guy who decided who died and who lived. (#15)
Student #26 I learned that there was one person who determined whether you lived, died, or ever saw your family again. Another thing that I learned was that 6 million people died during the Holocaust. Paperclips helped me to understand Anne Frank more because the people were sending in letters that described what had happened to their loved ones. I liked the movie.
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1. I agree with both facts that you stated happened in the movie. #25
2. #14 yes, i agree that one of the facts that i didnt realize until after the movie is how much 6,000,000 is. that is more that half the state of michigan. these acts were very strong. the stories told by the survivers really cleared up a lot of things too.
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Student #31 I knew that Hitler was a really bad person before the movie, but there was one thing from the movie that I didn't know. Hitler didn't just kill Jews, he killed 5 million other people. That's a total of 11 million people! The other fact from the movie that made me think was that a person would point "left" or "right", that made me just think. "Paper clips" did help me understand Anne Frank better. It made me realize why the Franks wanted to hide so bad. But I did know a lot about the Holocaust beforehand.
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