International Holocaust Remembrance Day is on Jan. 27 this year. On this annual day of commemoration, we are urged to honor those who lost their lives during the Nazi regime. The Holocaust started in ...

"We ask that you pause and reflect on the evil of hatred and intolerance," reads the plaque on an old railcar in Whitwell, Tenn. The cattle car, one of many used to transport European Jews to the Nazi ...

The Paper Clips Project emerged in Whitwell, Tennessee to engage rural Tennessee students in Holocaust education. Meanwhile, in nearby McMinn County, the school board has taken a key source from eight ...

On a visit to Berea College, Linda Hooper, the Whitwell, Tenn., middle school principal who gained international recognition after her students collected millions of paper clips to symbolize the ...

BLOUNTVILLE – A simple class project at a Tennessee middle school grew into an extraordinary international landmark thanks in no small part to the inspiration of school’s principal. Northeast State ...

Whitwell, Tenn., is a town of 1,600 residents. At the local school, there are no Jews, no Catholics, one Hispanic and five African-American students. It’s a community, according to Whitwell Middle ...