A Toronto Jewish motorcycle club raised $35,000 for a Tennessee school that collected millions of paper clips in memory of the Holocaust.
Sandra Roberts, the Whitwell Middle School’s principal, appeared last week with Sid Rochwerg, founder of the motorcycle club, in an event sponsored by Chabad-Lubavitch.
Students at the school decided in 1998 to collect 6 million paper clips to help them understand the magnitude of the Holocaust, and they began receiving paper clips from all over the world as word of their mission spread.
The project attracted media attention and was the subject of a documentary film.
Rochwerg, a child of Holocaust survivors who founded the motorcycle club Yidden on Wheels, led a contingent of 70 riders from Toronto to the school in May. Hundreds of other Jewish bikers converged on the town at the same time.
Sandra Roberts, the Whitwell Middle School’s principal, appeared last week with Sid Rochwerg, founder of the motorcycle club, in an event sponsored by Chabad-Lubavitch.
Students at the school decided in 1998 to collect 6 million paper clips to help them understand the magnitude of the Holocaust, and they began receiving paper clips from all over the world as word of their mission spread.
The project attracted media attention and was the subject of a documentary film.
Rochwerg, a child of Holocaust survivors who founded the motorcycle club Yidden on Wheels, led a contingent of 70 riders from Toronto to the school in May. Hundreds of other Jewish bikers converged on the town at the same time.
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