Spotlight

Moving Movie

Young adults ponder Holocaust commemoration.

give everyday."
nfettered," a pro-
Over 95 percent of
gram sponsored by
Whitwell's
population is
the Jewish
Anglo-Saxon
Protestant.
Federation of Metropolitan
"We learned about the
Detroit's Frances and Joseph
Holocaust over a 10-day
Fetter Millennium Fund,
course,
but nothing in-
hosted a showing of the
depth,"
said
Jeffries.
movie Paper Clips to a_ sold-
"Meeting
the
survivors and
out crowd of 350 guests at
RONIT
PINTO
hearing
their
stories
was the
the Uptown Birmingham 8
most
important
part
for me,
Columnist
Theatre.
Floyd said, referring to speak-
Paper Clips tells the moving
ers who came to their school.
story of how students in a small,
David Jacobson of Birmingham
mountain town in Whitwell, Tenn.,
organized
the "Unfettered" event. He
came to grips with Nazi Germany's
was
so
moved
by the film last year
attempted genocide of European
that
he
flew
to
Whitwell to meet the
Jewry. The children of Whitwell
participants.
Middle School wanted to collect
"Being there and experiencing it
something real to visualize the magni-
firsthand was probably one of the
tude of the loss of 6 million Jews.
highlights of my life," he said. "It was
They accumulated millions paper
amazing to see this could happen in a
clips, each one in honor of a man,
community
where there is not one
woman or child murdered in the
Jew."
Holocaust.
Spotted in the crowd at the Feb. 5
The Feb. 5 event, for 25- to 40-
showing
of the movie were Jordan
year-olds, featured a question and
Glass and Francine Krasner, both of
answer session with Whitwell school-
West Bloomfield; Phil Arbit of
teacher Sandra Roberts and students
Farmington Hills; Nathalie Giske,
Terri Floyd and Laura Jeffries.
Marc Barron, Ed Nakfoor, Pamela
Miramax film editor Julia Dixon also
Azaria
and Craig Menuck, all of
spoke.
Dr. Joe and Nancy
Birmingham;
"Our children didn't know anything
of
Bloomfield
Hills; Alan
Jacobson
about Jewish culture or the
Holocaust," Roberts said. "They didn't Feuer and Rabbi Lauren Berkun,
both of Southfield; Amy and Jeff
know about all of the wonderful
Schlussel, Marc Rosenblatt, Laura
things the Jewish people have brought
Freedman and Jeff Shanbom, all of
to history and the great gifts that they
Huntington Woods. ❑

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Above:
Marc Rosenblatt,
Laura Freedman
and Jeff
Shanbom, all of
Huntington
Woods, attended
the movie.

Right:Dr. Joe and
Nancy Jacobson
of Bloomfield
Hills

Left:
Terri Floyd,
Sandra Roberts
and Laura
Jefflies

Below:Noah
Tepperman of
Windsor, Karen
and Eric
Adelman of
Berkley and
Jordan Glass of
West Bloomfield

David Jacobson qf
Birmingham with daughters
Dan efla, 9, and le nna, 6

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