Riverhead’s Anti-Bias Task Force will hold a screening of the documentary “Paper Clips” and a conversation surrounding the film Sunday afternoon at Riverhead Free Library to commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day.
The award-winning 2004 film is about a 1998 project undertaken by middle school students in rural Tennessee to understand the magnitude of the Holocaust by collecting six million paper clips to represent the Jews who died during the genocide.
The movie will start at 1:30 p.m. and a discussion led by Harley Abrams, trustee of Temple Israel of Riverhead, will start after the film’s conclusion.
The event is in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day, which is held on the 27th day of Nisan on the Hebrew calendar and landed on April 18 in this year’s Gregorian calendar. The day marks the anniversary of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the largest revolt by Jews during World War II in resistance to the transportation of the rest of the city’s Jewish population to Nazi death camps.
The event is in furtherance of Holocaust education. The Anti-Defamation League’s Center for Anti-Semitism Research shows that those with basic information about the Holocaust were significantly less likely to believe in anti-Jewish tropes.
Advance registration is requested, but not required, by calling the Riverhead Free Library at (631) 727-3228.
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