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Student-Created Holocaust Displays Move from KJCC to Key Largo Library

TAVERNIER, Fla. – Two Coral Shores High School students did such an outstanding job on their recent leadership project about International Humanitarian Law (IHL), Genocide, and the Holocaust, that leaders of the Keys Jewish Community Center (KJCC) in Tavernier asked to keep their displays on show for an extra week.

Oceane Leguiset and Nikki Pravata were recently touted in the papers for showing “Hotel Rwanda” and providing follow-up education to their peers thanks to a Florida Learn and Serve grant awarded to Coral Shores Anjanette McGregor for her leadership class. Part of the requirement was to make a large visual display to share with the community. It was planned to stay a week with the KJCC and then move to the Key Largo Library. By request, it spent an extra week at the KJCC and is now available at the Key Largo Library this week through the second week in June.

Pictured below, MYCP District Prevention Coordinator Michele Sutter and Jordana Kamely Member of the KJCC and Holocaust Instructor, trained by Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, set up the Genocide/Holocaust Display at the Key Largo Library. The visual presentation was on display at the KJCC for two weeks as part of their Holocaust Remembrance activities. Sutter, who worked with McGregor to write the Learn and Serve grant invited Kamely to make a presentation to the Leadership Class in April as part of the students’ campaign to raise awareness about the issues of the Holocaust and other acts of genocide that have occurred in the past and are happening now.

In all, the grant included three related components. First, students in the Leadership Class were trained and certified in International Humanitarian Law (IHL) through the American Red Cross. Second, was the showing of the film “Hotel Rwanda” followed by the student leaders facilitating a class discussion regarding salient issues, IHL, and genocide and creating the display about the Holocaust and genocide. The third component of this grant, made it possible for students from the leadership and history classes to attend Student Awareness Day Holocaust Symposium held April 6.

Monroe Youth Challenge Program (MYCP) designed the leadership class and MYCP District Prevention Coordinator Michele Sutter said, “We are grateful for contributions from the KJCC that matched the grant so students could sit face-to-face with a Holocaust survivor at the Student Awareness Day. We are honored that the KJCC wanted to display Oceane and Nikki’s project. The students did a great job at educating their peers and it’s encouraging to see this tough subject get this kind of community exposure.”

Monroe Youth Challenge Program is a project of the Monroe County Education Foundation to foster acceptance, respect, and success in the youth of Monroe County. For more information about this event, Challenge Day, Next Step, or any other MYCP sponsored program call MYCP District Prevention Coordinator Michele Sutter at (305) 852-1664 or go to www.keysschools.org.