Whitwell is a city in Marion County, Tennessee, United States, approximately 24 miles northwest of Chattanooga.

A full list of the names of those killed in the mine explosion is on a monument at Whitwell High School.

The Sequatchie River passes just east of the city, and forms a portion of its southeastern boundary.

Tennessee State Route 28 (Hudson Street), which forms part of the main north–south corridor in the valley, connects Whitwell with Dunlap to the north and Jasper to the south.

State Route 283 connects Whitwell with Powells Crossroads across the Sequatchie river to the east, and State Route 108 (South Main Street) connects Whitwell with Grundy County atop the Plateau to the northwest.

This project started because students at the local middle school wanted to visually grasp how much six million was.

The students started collecting paper clips, one for every Jew who was murdered in the Holocaust during World War II.

The children collected well over the number of paper clips they wanted (11 million, representing all noncombatant prisoners—Jew and Gentile—killed by the Nazis).

The rail car that appears in the movie is original rolling stock, actually used to transport Jews to the concentration camps.