Ayden Kostzer from Community Leadership Academy, Second Place Winner
The fifth annual Holocaust Reflection Contest honored 12 middle and high school Florida students on Sunday, March 17th. Participating middle and high school students across Florida studied Holocaust survivors’ testimonies and created original poems, films, visual art pieces, and essays to reflect what they had learned. More than 100 schools, with about 2,000 students, entered in the contest.
Craig Weiner, president of the HLEF, which he co-founded with his wife Barbara Weiner in 2013, said, “The fifth annual awards ceremony for the student and teachers being awarded as winners of the statewide Holocaust Reflection Contest was, again this year, a huge success.”
“Roughly 200 people, including eight Holocaust survivors, were in attendance as well as the niece of the late Ludwig Beck, a general of the German Army that resigned from the German Army in 1938 and was a major participant in three assassination attempts on Hitler including the July 20, 1944 assassination with Claus Von Stauffenberg.”
Weiner also noted, “The impact that this education is having on our youth is exceptional, exactly what we want to achieve in that they all learn the importance of standing up against all forms of hate, prejudice, bullying and intolerance.”
Weiner said that the students’ work this year was truly exceptional.
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