Six million paper clips

The SST has a review of a documentary called paper clips. Basically it is about a school class which is trying to collect six million paper clips, to symbolically represent the six million Jews who died in the Holocaust.

It’s a simple concept but such a powerful one, even just thinking about it. You see the reality is most of us have problems relating to huge numbers, I can’t comprehend how what was then *four* times the population of New Zealand was slaughtered. I can’t relate to that. But you know if one saw six million paper clips and realised each one represented an individual tragedy, then you start to comprehend the enormity of the horror.

A film I must make time to go see.