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Monroe County Youth Meet Holocaust Survivors at Student Awareness Day

KEY WEST (337 words) – Thin and grey, George Oscar Lee articulates crisp details of his days as one of four Jews serving in the 1st Division of the 1st Polish Army who liberated Warsaw from the Nazis in 1945. High school students from Coral Shores, Marathon, and Key West High Schools each had the chance to hear a similar first-hand account of the Holocaust from a survivor Thursday, Nov. 5 at Student Awareness Day.

Held at Miami Dade Community College, speakers were brought in by the Holocaust Documentation and Education Center to combat prejudice in the multicultural, ethnically diversified community of South Florida and the world by alerting students to the dangers of prejudice.

 

 
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Student Awareness Day, a symposium for up to 500 high school students annually, teaches the dangers of racism, hatred, and bigotry through videos, lectures, and round-table discussions with survivors of the Holocaust.

Monroe Youth Challenge Program is a project of the Monroe County Education Foundation to build Developmental Assets® and create opportunities so every child in Monroe County can feel safe, loved, and celebrated. For more information call MYCP Director Sunny Booker at (305) 293-1400 ext. 53319 or visit www.monroe.k12.fl.us/mycp.

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