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teven Spielberg, Halle Berry,
Steve Carell and James Taylor
weren't the only stars at
the Sept. 10 USC Shoah Foundation
gala honoring Ford Motor Company
Executive Chairman Bill Ford Jr. at the
Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn.
Consider teacher Lisa Farese and
her students Emma Heintz and Natalia
Podstawka, winners of the 2015 Shoah
Foundation IWitness Video Challenge.
They were flown in from their small
hometown of East Douglas, Mass., to
discuss their winning project, which
evolved from using the foundation's
IWitness educational website in their
middle school last year.
IWitness taps into about 1,500 of
the 53,000 video testimonies from the
Shoah Foundation archives to connect
the grit, determination and resilience
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Natalia Podstawka and Emma Heintz
of Holocaust and genocide survivors to
situations in the students' lives where
those same characteristics can make
them survivors in today's world, too.
Farese, Heintz and Podstawka stood
somewhat shyly in a corner at the pre-
dinner reception, talking with patrons
who stopped near a monitor project-
ing their award-winning video. They
spoke humbly about their idea that
created a positive buzz among the
students in their middle school.
They were inspired by a survivor's
testimony about how nervous she was
as a girl forced to wear a yellow Jewish
star on her clothing, until a man also
wearing a star smiled at her and made
her feel less alone.
Bringing that feeling into today's
world, Heintz and Podstawka acknowl-
edged there's a lot of pressure for teens
to be perfect and that they tend to
think negatively about themselves.
So the pair decided upon a random
act of kindness. They would make per-
sonalized, anonymous cards for all 415
students in their school — all signed
"From, Your Friend:' Homeroom
teachers delivered the notes.
Two students interviewed in the
winning video beamed as they talked.
Both said the anonymous notes made
their day and the comments made
them feel good about themselves.
A simple gesture spurred by a
survivor's testimony. These girls are
superstars.
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